[ecrea] CFP: Social Media / Protest panel at ISA 2014, Japan, July 2014, Deadline Sept 30

At the International Sociological Association (ISA) Congress of 
Sociology in Yokohama Japan, July 13-19 2014, I am organising a session 
titled ‘Social Media and Collective Identities in the new Activism’.

The session will host papers looking at activist use of social media as 
means of identity-building, organisation and mobilisation in recent 
protest movements (Arab Spring, indignados, Occupy Wall Street, protests 
in Brazil and Turkey).

You find the abstract of the session below. The deadline is September 
30th 2013.

To submit an abstract for the conference, please use this link 
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi.
You will find the Social Media session by clicking on ‘Research 
Committees’ and scrolling down in the following page to RC47 where the 
session is listed. Please contact me if you need further information on 
the session.

Best,

Paolo Gerbaudo

*Social Media and Collective Identities in the 'New Activism'*
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*This session will look at the use of social media by social movement 
activists with a particular focus on the new forms of identification 
that develop in the use of these forms of communication. It invites 
papers looking at the way in which Facebook pages and groups, and 
Twitter accounts and feeds become a platform for the construction of the 
collective identity of new actors, by putting forward common names, 
common images, common slogans, and common imaginaries. It will question 
what is the nature of the new forms of identity that are developed on 
social media, what is their degree of coherence, permanence, and how 
they reflect the existential challenges of a phase of economic crisis, 
political transition and technological innovation.

*Session Organizer*
Paolo GERBAUDO, King`s College London, United Kingdom, 
(paolo.gerbaudo /at/ kcl.ac.uk) <mailto:(paolo.gerbaudo /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>

Paolo Gerbaudo
Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London
(paolo.gerbaudo /at/ kcl.ac.uk) <mailto:(paolo.gerbaudo /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>
Room 217a Norfolk Building Strand
+44 020 7848 1576