Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Understanding the Potential of Twitter for Political Activism
(Gwen Bouvier and Le Cheng, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, and others)
Chapter 2. The ‘Premotion’ of Political Discourse on Twitter: Promotional and Emotional Strategies of Communicating and Campaigning
(Pietro Luigi Iaia, Department of Humanities, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)
Chapter 3. Digital Trump and Conflict: A Multi-Method Analysis
(Tedla Desta, Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland)
Chapter 4. Public Sphere, Counterpublics, and the Managed Public: The Use of Twitter as Complementary Press on the Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
(Shushu Li, School of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Chapter 5. Trump’s Tweets: Computer-Mediated Communication Cues as Indicators for Paralinguistic Digital Affordances on Political Social Media
(Christa L. Jennings, Department of Communication, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, US)
Chapter 6. Constructing Transnational Identity through Twitter Activism: A Discourse Study of #EndFGM
(Isioma Maureen Chiluwa and Olaniyi T. Ayodele, Department of Languages and General Studies, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, and others)
Chapter 7. Social Media and LGBT Activism in India
(Paromita Pain, Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Reno, Nevada)
Chapter 8. How Women in Turkey Bring Feminist Movement to a New Level on Twitter: The Case of Women Theatre Performers
(Çiğdem Erdal, Department of Cinema-TV, Harran University, Şanlıurfa, Turkey)
Chapter 9. Hashtag Activism and Democratization in Nigeria: A Study of the #Occupy Nigeria and #Bringbackourgirls Twitter Movements
(Floribert Patrick C. Endong, Department of Theater, Film and Carnival Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria)
Chapter 10. Don’t Dare Call It a Coup: Twitter Discourses on the Fall of Robert Mugabe
(Allen Munoriyarwa, Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Chapter 11. Online Activism in Mali: A Study of Digital Discourses of the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
(Innocent Chiluwa, Department of Languages & General Studies, Covenant University, OTA
Nigeria)
Chapter 12. Networked Authoritarianism in Turkey: JDP’s Political Trolling and Astroturfing
(Mustafa Cem OĞUZ and Ozhan Demirkol, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey)
Chapter 13. Sousveilance Twitter: Challenges to Pro-Democracy Governance from below in the Middle East
(Helia Asgari and Katharine Sarikakis, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 14. From Free Speech to Freed Speech: Twitter’s Ethics of Freedom in the Aftermath of November 2015 Paris Attacks through the Lens of the Anonymous Collective
(M. Sébastien Moutte, Department of sociology, TTSD, Lersem, University of Paul Valery
Montpellier, France)
About the Authors
Index
Keywords: Social media, Twitter, discourse, activism, protest, campaigning, political discourse
This book will be very helpful as a handbook to students, scholars and professionals in communication, journalism, international affairs, political science, linguistics and social media studies.
