Occupy Wall Street: A new political form of movement and community?
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Occupy Wall Street : A new political form of movement and community? / Jensen, Michael J.; Bang, Henrik.
I: Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Bind 10, Nr. 4, 12.12.2013, s. 444 – 461.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Occupy Wall Street
T2 - A new political form of movement and community?
AU - Jensen, Michael J.
AU - Bang, Henrik
PY - 2013/12/12
Y1 - 2013/12/12
N2 - This article analyzes the political form of Occupy Wall Street on Twitter. Drawing on evidence contained within the profiles of over 50,000 Twitter users, political identities of participants are characterized using natural language processing. The results find evidence of a traditional oppositional social movement alongside a legitimizing countermovement, but also a new notion of political community as an ensemble of discursive practices that are endogenous to the constitution of political regimes from the “inside out.” These new political identities are bound by thin ties of political solidarity linked to the transformative capacities of the movement rather than thick ties of social solidarity.
AB - This article analyzes the political form of Occupy Wall Street on Twitter. Drawing on evidence contained within the profiles of over 50,000 Twitter users, political identities of participants are characterized using natural language processing. The results find evidence of a traditional oppositional social movement alongside a legitimizing countermovement, but also a new notion of political community as an ensemble of discursive practices that are endogenous to the constitution of political regimes from the “inside out.” These new political identities are bound by thin ties of political solidarity linked to the transformative capacities of the movement rather than thick ties of social solidarity.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Social movements
KW - Twitter
KW - political participation,
KW - atural language processing
U2 - 10.1080/19331681.2013.803948
DO - 10.1080/19331681.2013.803948
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 444
EP - 461
JO - Journal of Information Technology & Politics
JF - Journal of Information Technology & Politics
SN - 1933-1681
IS - 4
ER -
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