CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jeff Goodwin, Conflict Resource, Political Subjectivity

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Critical annotation essay due november 25th (iniial phase of wriing a research paper) Theories of social movements and collecive acion. Core theme: power as a social relaion. Core theme: social media plaforms as terrain of class struggle. Core theme: the mulitude as a new poliical subjecivity. A social movement is a collecive, organized, sustained and noninsituional challenge to authoriies, powerholders or cultural beliefs and pracices . Emerges as a criique of collecive acion theory. Argues that socially connected individuals are most likely to be mobilized for collecive acion. The key determinants of successful collecive acion are the available resources. Mobilizing structures may be either formal or informal networks. Networked informaion economy allows members of social movements to: Share personal experiences and create a sense of togetherness. Contemporary large-scale acion networks are increasingly based on personalized content across connected icts rather than hierarchical and centralized forms of organizaion. Two categories of connecive acion: organizaionally enabled networks, self organizing networks.