In this work we study, on a sample of 2.3 million individuals, how Facebook users consumed different information at the edge of political discussion and news during the last Italian electoral competition. Pages are categorized, according to their topics and the communities of interests they pertain to, in a) alternative information sources (diffusing topics that are neglected by science and mai...

The September 2019 Global Climate Strikes witnessed hundreds of thousands students express forms global citizenship through street-level environmental activism. These strikes were led, and motivated, by youth who chose to strike from class in order send a message world leaders. It was an enormous occupation public space imagination that encouraged schools cancel classes for go outside engage po...

This paper examines the causes and consequences of hedge fund activism. Hedge funds target profitable and healthy firms, with above-average cash holdings. The target firms earn significantly higher abnormal stock returns around the initial 13D filing date than a sample of control firm. However, they do not show improvements in accounting performances in the year after the initial purchase. Inst...

Background: Digitalization and hyperconnectivity generate spaces for youth participation in social activism through media platforms. The purpose of this research was to analyze young people’s online experience movements, including their preferences, themes, usage language, perceived impact. Methods: is framed within a qualitative interpretative–descriptive paradigm. Five focus groups were condu...

This study examines whether women’s feminist activism is connected to three key factors: sufficient educational and financial resources, the internalization of a feminist consciousness, and being involved in feminist mobilization structures. Analysis of the 2012 American National Election Survey (N = 1,876) suggests that participation and engagement in the women’s movement is least common among...

We study political activism by several interest groups with private signals. When their ideological distance to the policymaker is small, a “low-trust” regime prevails: agents frequently lobby even when it is unwarranted, taking advantage of the conŽ rmation provided by others’ activism; conversely, the policymaker responds only to generalized pressure. When ideological distance is large, a “hi...

Abstract How do diasporas fight online information wars during armed conflicts in their homelands? I explore this question through interviews with 30 young diaspora Armenians seven nations about practical experiences of activism the 2020 Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. examine motivations for engaging social media activism; strategies methods promoting Armenian narrative; vision op...

Purpose In brand activism, a promotes contested sociopolitical causes to highlight its values. Brand activism also alienates those consumers who disagree with the cause, might, consequently, target critical, negative or even aggressive actions. This paper aims study triggers and strategies of consumers’ antibrand actions given in response activism. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative conten...

The literature on environmental activism has failed to produce a model of individual decision making explicitly linked to the logic of collective action. To remedy this problem, this article adapts the collective interest model developed by Finkel, Muller, and Opp to explain protest behavior and argues environmental activism is a function of citizen beliefs about collective benefits, the abilit...

This article reports a unique analysis of private engagements by an activist fund. It is based on data made available to us by Hermes, the fund manager owned by the British Telecom Pension Scheme, on engagements with management in companies targeted by its UK Focus Fund. In contrast with most previous studies of activism, we report that the fund executes shareholder activism predominantly throu...