Sosiaalinen media uusien globaalien yhteiskunnallisten liikkeiden

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Social media & the new global social movements

Sofia LaineThe Finnish Youth Research

NetworkSofia.laine@youthresearch.fiwww.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi

Generation of global community

Edmunds & Turner (2005)Defines the global generation starting from the latter part of the twentieth century (i.e. those whose transition from childhood to adulthood has taking place during that time) and highlights the role of the electronic communication technology as the primary characteristics of this generation

Wass & Torsti (2011)Those born between the years 1975–1984 are called as the EU membership and recession generation referring to the respondents’ two mostly self-reported key experiences in the Finnish history. What characterises this generation at the world political level, are their key experiences on terrorism, war on terror and communication technology. This generation together with the younger ones (defined as technology, internationality and terrorism generation) tend to emphasise more the role of international organisations and social movements for the future development than their elders.

This commentary focuses especially on the active digital generation and on the involvement of youth researchers.

Helsingin Sanomat about the Occupy Movement in Finland:”Small protest group persists in tents”

http://www.occupytogether.org/

1. Generating values and goals2. Shaping the reality3. Political safety valve4. Monitoring the exercise of power5. Maintenance, reconstruction or revocation of the societal

structures6. Increases influencing possibilities of the single citizens

Social functions of the press

... are more and more social functions of the social media tools in activist’s and social

movement’s work

Performance as a public narrative of suffering or oppression.

“Performance theory gives central place to emotion and emotions, as both actors and audiences must be moved if a performance is successful. The adoption of performance theory allows us to better address questions concerning what happens when people enter a movement, how this affects their actions and the actions of others, and to ask how social movements move.” – Ron Eyerman (2005)

Emotions generate solidarity.

Importance of directing the analysis and methodological innovations to the nonlinguistic, i.e. visual, digital, motional and emotional, dimensions

Significance of emotions in global social movements

Free Hugs Campaign landed to Occupy Helsinki (as smaller picture demonstrates).

• Ephemera volume 11, number 3 • Laine, Sofia (2011) Grounded globalizations of transnational social

movements: Ethnographic analysis on Free Hugs Campaign at the World Social Forum Belém 2009

• How the use of one’s own body, combined with the visual and digital methodologies when conducting global ethnographic research, may be a useful combination for the global social movement research.

• Making the video available in the same media that the global social movement uses, the researcher will deepen his/her understanding of how the global social movement uses the global public sphere to build a global movement.

LiteratureEdmunds, June & Turner, Bryan S. (2005) Global generations: social change in the twentieth century. The British Journal of Sociology 56(4), 559–577.

Eyerman, Ron (2005) How social movements move. In Helena Flam and Debra King (2005) Emotions and Social Movements. Oxon: Routledge, 41–56.

Lindholm, Arto & Lundbom, Pia (2010) Tunteet yhteiskunnallisissa liikkeissä. (Emotions in social movements.) In Esa Konttinen & Jukka Peltokoski (eds.) Verkostojen liikettä. (Movement of Networks.) University of Jyväskylä, 176–193. http://kans.jyu.fi/tutkimuksia/kirja/liikekirja2.pdf

Lyytikäinen, Laura (2011) Poliittinen aktivismi Venäjän nuorison silmin – nuorisoliike Oborona ja sen toimintamuodot. Nuorisotutkimus 29(3), 29–46.

Wass, Hanna & Torsti, Pilvi (2011) Limittyvät sukupolvet ja jaetut näkemykset: suomalaiset yhteiskunnalliset sukupolvet ja sukupolvittaiset erot poliittisessa käyttäytymisessä (Overlapping generations and shared experiences. Finnish societal generations and generational differences in political behaviour). Politiikka 53(3), 167–184.