[Commlist] Call for proposals - Social media and social acceptability

Call for proposals

International Political Science Association

Lisbon (Portugal), July 2020

RC-22 - Political Communication

Digital Dissent: Uses of Social Media in Controversial Projects Raising 
Social Acceptability Issues

Chair: Mireille Lalancette, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Discussant: Alessandro Nai, University of Amsterdam and Vincent 
Raynauld, Emerson College Boston

Over the past 15 years, digital media have redefined the repertories of 
political action and engagement. Formal political actors, companies, 
interest groups and citizens are now turning to digital platforms to 
inform, disseminate messages, mobilize and protest in the public space. 
These new political practices, facilitated by the Internet, seem 
particularly helpful in order to debate social acceptability issues. The 
notion of social acceptability has become essential when it comes to the 
development of projects with economic, social or environmental impacts; 
several controversial infrastructure or development projects (e. g. LNG 
ports or pipelines) have given rise to fierce political and social 
clashes in North America and Europe. However, we know very little about 
the intertwining of these new forms of engagement that social media 
allows when the social acceptability of projects is at stake. Are social 
media a vehicle for engagement and mobilization? Who are the actors that 
invest in these platforms and what are their objectives? How do social 
media strategies complement traditional protest repertories? What are 
the effects of such participation on the trajectory of controversies? 
The goal of this panel is to understand the uses of digital social media 
in controversies that raise social acceptability issues.

The contributions sought will be aimed at:

- Characterizing the use of digital social media in controversial contexts;

- Examining the place of these uses in the communication strategies put 
forward by the various actors involved in these controversies;

- Analyzing the supporting rhetoric deployed by actors on these digital 
social platforms, and comparing it to that put forward through 
traditional protest and participation repertoires;

- Characterizing the leadership that is exercised in these spaces;

- Studying the forms of dialogue between the different stakeholders in 
the debates made possible by the digital media.

Proposals with an empirical dimension will be preferred.

People interested to submit a proposal are invited to do so *by October 
10^th , 2019*, through IPSA congress website: 
https://wc2020.ipsa.org/wc/submit-paper(please find the panel under the 
RC22 – Political Communication).


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