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Studying everyday selforganized social movements from a story telling perspec7ve Petro Poutanen, MSSc University of Helsinki, Department of Social Research, Communcia;on and media Studies 15th Jun 2015, The University of Tokyo (Hongo campus)

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Page 1: Studying everyday self-organized social movements from a story-telling perspective

Studying  everyday  self-­‐organized  social  movements  from  a  story-­‐

telling  perspec7ve  Petro  Poutanen,  MSSc  

University  of  Helsinki,  Department  of  Social  Research,  Communcia;on  and  

media  Studies  15th  Jun  2015,  The  University  of  Tokyo  

(Hongo  campus)    

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AGENDA  

 How  to  theorize  everyday  social  movements  (ESM)?    How  to  study  ESM?      Haarlem,  The  Netherlands,  1981  (in  the  Public  Domain)  

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PART  I  

How  to  theorize  everyday  social  movements  (ESM)?  

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SOME  RECENT  TRENDS  

Cook's  Handbook  for  London.  With  two  maps.  Guide  Books.  London  (In  the  Public  Domain)  

Hyper-­‐locality  and  glocal  adapta7ons  The  use  of  social  and  digital  media  Personaliza7on  and  co-­‐crea7on  

Digital  storytelling  

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How  to  frame  ESM  as  a  ”complex  system”?  

”Complex  systems  are  usually  open  systems,  i.e.  they  interact  with  their  environment.  As  a  maUer  of  fact,  it  is  oVen  difficult  to  define  the  border  of  a  complex  system.  Instead  of  being  a  characteris;c  of  the  system  itself,  the  scope  of  the  system  is  usually  determined  by  the  purpose  of  the  descrip;on  of  the  system,  and  is  thus  oVen  influenced  by  the  posi;on  of  the  observer.  This  process  is  called  framing.”    

-­‐  Paul  Cilliers  (1998)  

 

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How  to  frame  ESM  as  a  ”complex  system”?  

Interac7on  and  communica7on  

Networked  

Open  boudaries  

Emergence,  ”boUom-­‐up”  

Self-­‐organiza7on  

Adap7ve  

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Hierarchical  

Self-­‐organizing  

SoV  /    everyday  

Radical  

Roberta  F.  

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PART  II  

How  to  study  ESM?    

A  communica;on  based  preliminary  framework  

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Focus  on  communica7on  structures  

Neighborhood  Youngsters  in  the  Playground  –  US  Na;onal  Archives  (In  the  Public  Domain)    

The  structure  of  a  ”storytelling  network”  

Macro,  meso,  micro  levels  

A  degree  of  connectedness  

”Communcia;on  ac;on  context”  (openness)  

(Kim  &  Ball-­‐Rokeach,  2006)  

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Focus  on  knowledge  crea)on  

The  communica;on  context  

Nature  of  knowledge  

Shared  interpreta;ve  schemas  /  discourses  

Trust  

(e.g.  Hislop,  2002)  

 

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Focus  on  change  and  dynamics  

How  the  dynamics  of    knowledge  crea;on  and  dissemina;on  /  discoursive  sphere  change  over  ;me?  

How  communica;on  structures  (connec;vity)  and  ac;on  context  (openness)  evolve?  

How  trust  is  created,  maintained  or  lost?  

How  a  community  /  movement  coevolves?  Community  urban  gardening  in  Leipzig  CC  BY-­‐NC-­‐ND  by  mitost/  

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Conclusion  

l  ESMs’  can  be  seen  as  complex  systems  l  For  the  analy;cal  purposes,  they  should  be  separated  from  other  types  of  social  organiza;ons  /  movements  /  ac;vites  

l  When  studying  ESMs,  three  perspec;ves  are  available:  1.  Structural  (communica;on  structures  /  networks)  2.  Knowledge  crea;on  /  discourses  3.  Dynamics  and  change  

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Ques7ons  &  conversa7on…  aVer  the  next  presenta7on!  

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