Purpose – This article aims to explore the impact of new social media on the 2011 English riots. Design/methodology/approach – The paper suggests that discourse on the riots in the news and popular press is obscured by speculation and political rhetoric about the role of social media in catalysing the unrest that overlooks the role of individual agency and misrepresents the emotional dimensions of such forms of collective action. Findings – In considering the riots to be symptomatic of criminality and austerity, commentators have tended to revive nineteenth- and twentieth-century crowd theories to make sense of the unrest, which are unable to account for the effect of new social media on this nascent twenty-first century phenomenon. Resea...
The use of social media during crises has been explored in a variety of natural and man-made crisis ...
Whilst online social networking has been used successfully for many years by all strata of the world...
In this thesis, I present a new approach to interpreting and understanding the 2011 English riots. W...
Commentary on the recent riots largely reflects ideological differences with political discourse rev...
<p>The issues of ‘race’, place and its connections to traditional and social media have never been s...
A hockey riot occurred on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Riots involve crowds...
This paper considers two interlinked developments of the 2011 Vancouver riots in British Columbia, C...
This chapter is mainly concerned with the problem of how to conceptualise the entanglement of emotio...
This article explores the origins and ideology of classical crowd psychology, a body of theory refle...
The issues of “race”, place and its connections to traditional and social media have never been so ...
The impact of the riots that took place across England last month are still reverberating. We have s...
The use of social media during crises has been explored in a variety of natural and man-made crisis ...
The concept of collectivity in the social sciences hinges on a tension between technology’s propensi...
For social scientists, the widespread adoption of social media presents both an opportunity and a ch...
Social media, such as microblogging, is a powerful medium for sharing information and organizing re...
The use of social media during crises has been explored in a variety of natural and man-made crisis ...
Whilst online social networking has been used successfully for many years by all strata of the world...
In this thesis, I present a new approach to interpreting and understanding the 2011 English riots. W...
Commentary on the recent riots largely reflects ideological differences with political discourse rev...
<p>The issues of ‘race’, place and its connections to traditional and social media have never been s...
A hockey riot occurred on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Riots involve crowds...
This paper considers two interlinked developments of the 2011 Vancouver riots in British Columbia, C...
This chapter is mainly concerned with the problem of how to conceptualise the entanglement of emotio...
This article explores the origins and ideology of classical crowd psychology, a body of theory refle...
The issues of “race”, place and its connections to traditional and social media have never been so ...
The impact of the riots that took place across England last month are still reverberating. We have s...
The use of social media during crises has been explored in a variety of natural and man-made crisis ...
The concept of collectivity in the social sciences hinges on a tension between technology’s propensi...
For social scientists, the widespread adoption of social media presents both an opportunity and a ch...
Social media, such as microblogging, is a powerful medium for sharing information and organizing re...
The use of social media during crises has been explored in a variety of natural and man-made crisis ...
Whilst online social networking has been used successfully for many years by all strata of the world...
In this thesis, I present a new approach to interpreting and understanding the 2011 English riots. W...