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dc.date.accessioned2018-01-02T15:50:54Z
dc.date.available2019-06-08T22:47:53Z
dc.date.created2017-12-11T09:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationMichailidou, Asimina Airoldi, Massimo Barisione, Mauro . Understanding a digital movement of opinion: the case of #RefugeesWelcome. Information, Communication and Society. 2017, 1-20
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10852/59486
dc.description.abstractRecent work on digital political engagement has extensively shown that social media platforms enhance political participation and collective action. However, the idea that citizen voice through social media can give rise, under given conditions, to a specific digital force combining properties of social movements and public opinion has received less attention. We fill this gap by analysing the digital discussion around the Twitter hashtag #RefugeesWelcome as a case of ‘digital movement of opinion’ (DMO). When the refugee crisis erupted in 2015, an extraordinary wave of empathy characterized the publics’ reactions in key European hosting countries, especially as a result of viral images portraying refugee children as the main victims. Using a triangulation of network, content and metadata analysis, we find that this DMO was driven primarily by social media elites whose tweets were then echoed by masses of isolated users. We then test the post-DMO status of the hashtag-sphere after a potentially antithetical shock such as the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, which polarized the network public. Overall, we argue that the concept of DMO provides a heuristically useful tool for future research on new forms of digital citizen participation. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Information, Communication & Society on 08 Dec 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1410204en_US
dc.languageEN
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titleUnderstanding a digital movement of opinion: the case of #RefugeesWelcomeen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.creator.authorMichailidou, Asimina
dc.creator.authorAiroldi, Massimo
dc.creator.authorBarisione, Mauro
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cristin.unitnameARENA Senter for europaforskning
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dc.identifier.cristin1525418
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dc.identifier.jtitleInformation, Communication and Society
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.endpage20
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1410204
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-62156
dc.type.documentTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.type.peerreviewedPeer reviewed
dc.source.issn1369-118X
dc.identifier.fulltextFulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/59486/2/michailidou-airoldi-%2523refugeeswelcome.pdf
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