I want to try something new here at The Monkey Cage, and if it works I’d be happy to do it again in the future. Basically, I want to see if we can crowd source a bibliography on a particular topic. The topic I’m interested in is social media and protest (see “here”:http://tmc.org/blog/2011/08/09/more-on-social-media-england-and-collective-action/ and “here”:http://tmc.org/blog/2009/06/16/the_twitter_revolution_debate/ for past Monkey Cage posts on the topic). More specifically, I want to know what scholarly works are out there that assess – either theoretically or emprically – the impact of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc.) on protest: when it occurs, whether it contained/suppressed, if the protest is “successful”, etc. My assumption is that I’m not the only one interested in looking into this topic, so it is worth a post here. Also, “Sam Greene”:http://www.nes.ru/en/people/catalog/g/sgreene of the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia has been generous enough to start us off with a list (after the jump below) of works that are either directly or tangentially on the topic. So we’re not starting from scratch.
But more generally, I’m kind of interested in whether this could be a new use for a blog like The Monkey Cage. I’m on some specialized list-serves where occasionally someone passes along a request for literature on a particular topic, and it always seems to me a very efficient way to quickly get access to a lot of information about a particular literature. And yes, I know that Google Scholar also makes this a fairly simple process, but I think that crowd sourcing like this could be both more efficient and produce better results than using key words in Google Scholar. I also wonder whether the fact that the Monkey Cage is read by both academics and non-academics could generate interesting suggestions for each audience that they might not consider.
So I’m going to give this a try and we’ll see what happens. Sam’s initial list is after the break. You’ll notice that a lot of this comes out of the communication studies literature, so I’m especially interested in pieces more rooted in political science that we may be missing:
Aday, S. et al. 2010. “Blogs and Bullets. New Media in Contentious Politics”. Washington: United States Institute of Peace.
Aron, L. 2011. “Nyetizdat: How the Internet is Building Civil Society in Russia”. Washington: American Enterprise Institute.
Campbell, S.W. and N. Kwak. 2010. “Mobile Communications and Civic Life: Linking Patterns of Use to Civic and Political Engagement” in Journal of Communication, 60: 536-555.
Coleman, R. et al. 2008. “Public life and the internet: if you build a better website, will citizens become engaged?” in New Media & Society, 10(2): 179-201.
Diamond, L. 2010. “Liberation Technology” in Journal of Democracy, 21(3): 69-83.
Etling, B. et al. 2010. “Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization”. Cambridge: Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University.
Gordon, E. and E. Manosevitch. 2010. “Augmented deliberation: Merging physical and virtual interaction to engage communities in urban planning” in New Media & Society, 13(1): 75-95.
Hooghe, M. et al. 2010. “The Potential of Internet Mobilization” in Political Communication, 27(4): 406-431.
Jiang, M. 2010. “Chinese Internet Events”. Working paper
Kenix, L.J. 2009. “Blogs as Alternative” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14: 790-822.
Mejias, U.A. 2010. “The limits of networks as models for organizing the social” in New Media & Society, 12(4): 603-617.
Lagerkvist, J. 2005. “The Rise of Online Public Opinion in the People’s Republic of China” in China: An International Journal, 3(1): 119-130.
Lonkila, M. and B. Gladarev. 2008. “Social networks and cellphone use in Russia: local consequences of global communication technology” in New Media & Society, 10(2): 273-293.
MacKinnon, R. 2011. “China’s Networked Authoritarianism” in Journal of Democracy, 22(2): 32-46.
Meraz, S. 2007. “Is There an Elite Hold? Traditional Media to Social Media Agenda Setting Influence in Blog Networks” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14: 682-707.
Qiang, X. 2011. “The Battle for the Chinese Internet” in Journal of Democracy, 22(2): 47-61.
Rojas, H. and E. Puig-i-Abril. 2009. “Mobilizers Mobilized: Information, Expression, Mobilization and Participation in the Digital Age” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14: 902-927.
Srinavasan, R. and A. Fish. 2009. “Internet Authorship: Social and Political Implications Within Kyrgyzstan” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14: 559-580.
Stein, L. 2009. “Social movement web use in theory and practice: a content analysis of US movement websites” in New Media & Society, 11(5): 749-771.
Tatarchevskiy, T. 2011. “The ‘popular’ culture of Internet activism” in New Media & Society, 13(2): 297-313.
Toepfl, F. 2011. “Managing public outrage: Power, scandal, and new media in contemporary Russia” in New Media & Society, forthcoming.
Yang, G. 2009. “China Since Tiananmen: Online Activisim” in Journal of Democracy, 20(3): 33-36.
Zhou, X. 2009. “The political blogosphere in China: A content analysis of the blogs regarding the dismissal of Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu” in New Media & Society, 11(6): 1003-1022.