In the late 1990s and through 2001, consumer activists protested Nike’s alleged “sweatshops” around the globe. This was a new sort of protest that went beyond the picket lines and boycotts of the past – this protest extensively used email and listservs to spread messages and mobilize action at an unprecedented pace and for a very low cost (Peretti and Micheletti 2011). Nike responded to the con...

This article presents an integrated model of contentious nationalist activity, 7 with structure, politics, and action assuming equal roles in an interdependent 8 causal system. The model is tested using simultaneous equation systems on 130 9 ethno-nationalist groups from 1990 to 1998. The results confirm the vital, 10 indirect role of grievances and group identity on protest and the powerful di...

This paper investigates the place of citizenship in Hirak protest movement with view to highlight strengths and weaknesses current modes being citizen an authoritarian regime Arab world. It identifies analyses tensions frictions that generate change strategies ruling elites social articulate implement their choices. In this perspective, we frame popular discontent resulted from candidature Bout...

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This study examines the role of online social network proximity in cross-national diffusion of offline protests. Drawn upon Valente’s (1995) network diffusion model, the study operationalizes social network proximity-based protest exposure, using the international Facebook friendship share data. One year-long onsite protests during Arab Spring 2011 are examined using event history modeling. The...

Protests against coronavirus policies have occurred in all European countries. The intensity of protest varies strongly, however. We explain this variation by strategic choices that organizers make to maintain the movement. Specifically, we argue pay heed dynamics pandemic their country: number events is higher when and where mortality rates are lower containment more stringent. At same time, i...

The purpose of the research is to study practice its manifestation in modern political process Russia, particular Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Shies, based on analysis scientific ideas about activism social networks. main methods work are comparative science approach, case-study content analysis. recent events shows that online technologies forms civic participation gaining great importance discou...