MEDIATED INTERACTION RITUALS: A GEOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE AND CONTENTION IN BLACK LIVES MATTER*

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2020-09-02 DOI:10.17813/1086-671x-25-3-295

Sander van Haperen, J. Uitermark, A. V. D. Zeeuw

引用次数: 9

Abstract

The Movement for Black Lives has connected millions of people online. How are their outrage and hope mediated through social media? To address this question, this article extends Randall Collins’s Interaction Ritual Theory to social media. Employing semisupervised image recognition methods on a million Instagram posts with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter, we identify four different interaction ritual types, each with distinct geographies. Instagram posts featuring interactions with physical copresence are concentrated in urban areas. We identify two different types of such areas: arenas where contention plays out and milieus where movement identities are affirmed. Instagram posts that do not feature physical copresence are more geographically dispersed. These posts, including memes and selfies, allow people to engage with the movement even when they are not embedded in activist environments. Our analysis helps to understand how different forms of engagement are embedded in particular places and connected through the circulation of social media posts.

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调解互动仪式:黑人生活问题的日常生活和争论的地理*

“黑人生命运动”已经将数百万人连接到了网上。他们的愤怒和希望是如何通过社交媒体传递的？为了解决这个问题，本文将兰德尔·科林斯的互动仪式理论扩展到社交媒体。在100万条带有#blacklivesmatter标签的Instagram帖子上使用半监督的图像识别方法，我们确定了四种不同的互动仪式类型，每种类型都有不同的地理位置。Instagram上以身体共生互动为特色的帖子集中在城市地区。我们确定了两种不同类型的此类领域：竞争进行的竞技场和确认运动身份的环境。Instagram上不以物理共存为特征的帖子在地理上更为分散。这些帖子，包括模因和自拍，允许人们参与这场运动，即使他们没有融入活动家环境。我们的分析有助于了解不同形式的参与是如何嵌入特定的地方并通过社交媒体帖子的传播联系起来的。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.