This number of the journal Terminal, coordinated by Vincent Raynauld, Emmanuelle Richez and Stéphanie Wojcik, gathers a selection of articles dedicated to "minority and/or marginalized groups in the digital age".
Several online protest movements led by minority and/or marginalized groups have emerged in recent years: #Occupy, #BringBackOurGirls, #BlackLivesMatter, the "sunflower" movement in Taiwan, the multiple protests of the Arab Spring movements, and most recently #MeToo.
"The last decade," explain Vincent Raynauld, Emmanuelle Richez and Stéphanie Wojcik in the introductory text, "has been marked by a growing number of minority and/or marginalized groups or communities that are using social digital media to highlight issues of concern to them, to establish a dialogue with political elites and other members of civil society, and to gain public recognition and favor. "Minority and/or marginalized groups," the three authors state, "typically include individuals who come from situations of social, ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic, economic, or political inequality, because of their voluntary or involuntary membership in communities or networks, and who are perceived as subordinate or, in some cases, negatively by dominant groups. g. In this way, many minority and/or marginalized groups that were virtually invisible in the arenas influenced by conventional political and media elites (e.g., political parties, journalistic organizations, politicians) are now being given a platform through the use of socionic media." "Thus, socionic media allow minority and/or marginalized groups greater flexibility and control over the structure, content, tone, and dissemination of their message (...) In some cases, they reduce the threat of repression by political actors (...) They can act as a lever and exert influence over the political process.In sum, they contribute to the enlargement, diversification and, for some, the enrichment of the repertoires of collective action, which can be defined as the set of "means of action that the mobilized groups have at their disposal, at a given moment, to implement" political and civic actions often aimed at contesting the dominant political and social forces.The texts presented in this dossier are structured around three issues:
- The internal effects of online political and civic protest
- The impact of online protest movements on social and political elites
- The limitations and problems associated with the online challenge.
- Vincent Raynauld, Emmanuelle Richez and Stéphanie Wojcik: Introduction: Mobilization practices, socio-political changes and identity transformations
- Natacha Souillard, Brigitte Sebbah, Lucie Loubère, Laurent Thiong-Kay and Nikos Smyrnaios
- The Yellow Vests, study of a social movement through the prism of its media arenas
- Lena A. Hübner and Anne-Marie Pilote: Feminist mobilizations on Facebook and Twitter. The case of the #StopCultureDuViol movement in Quebec
- Afaf Taibi, Anna Lezon Rivière and Madjid Ihadjadene: The info-communication practices of the Rifian diaspora on the digital networks in a socio-political crisis situation
- Normand Landry, Anne-Marie Gagné, Sylvain Rocheleau, Christiane Caneva, Pascale Caidor and Mathieu Bégin: Activism, Social Justice and Digital Inequality: A Study of Anti-Poverty Groups in Quebec
- Vincent Carlino: Online video and radical political contestation. Between integration to militant practices and criticism of platforms
- Pascal Lupien: Socio-digital media and the participation of Canadian francophone minorities in political life
- Mireille Lalancette, Stéphanie Yates and Carol-Ann Rouillard: Participation of minority counterpublics and socionumeric media. Twitter debates in the context of the adoption of the law on medical aid in dying in Canada
- Arjun Tremblay and Yasmin Jiwani: Hispanic and Latino minority and digital social networks in the United States in the era of Donald Trump: a research note.
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