Social networking sites in pro-democracy and anti-austerity protests. Some thoughts from a social movement perspective
Donatella della Porta and Alice Mattoni
Type: Chapter in edited book Year: 2015
della Porta, D. & Mattoni, A., 2015. Social networking sites in pro-democracy and anti-austerity protests. Some thoughts from a social movement perspective. In D. Trottier & C. Fuchs, eds. Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots
This article focuses on a neglected aspect of the climate action movement Fridays for Future, namely, the relationship between its mediated communication practices and its early organizational processes. Drawing from a strand of organizational communication that underscores the constitutive dimension of communication to organizing processes, we analyze the significance of mediatized leadership and networked communication for the foundation and early development of two national chapters of Fridays for Future: Youth for Climate (YFC) Belgium and Fridays for Future Italy (FFFI).
