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Digital Prefigurative Participation

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In this chapter, I reflect on the priming of participation in protest events through networked communication on various digital platforms including social media. I ask the question of the extent to which such prefiguration of participation occurs and look at some of the ways in which it does in the context of two contrasting environmental protests.

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Notes

  1. 1.

     1. See the special issues of the Journal of Communication, vol. 62, issue 2; The American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 57, issue 7; Information, Communication and Society, vol. 18, issue 8; and the tens of articles written on the topic in high-impact journals.

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     2. Illustratively, case studies in one leading communications journal, New Media and Society, explore the minutia of European (Larson and Hallavard 2011; Strandberg 2013; Vaccari and Valeriani 2013) and North American elections (Williams and Gulati 2012; Kreiss 2014).

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     3. For an elaborate definition of the concept, see Hinton and Hjorth (2013) and in particular Chap. 2.

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     4. That sampling strategy was chosen because no sampling frame (de Vauss 2002) was available for drawing a probabilistic sample. In line with Goss (2004), a sampling strategy accounting for the socio-spatial distribution of the participants at different times of the day was devised to attain randomness and representativity at both events.

     5. The media reported the figure of 6000 participants at FânFest for the three days of the festival, in 2007 (Biro 2007).

     6. The total number of participants for the entire week of the event was reported to have reached around 1500 participants (George 2008).

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     7. A lower response rate than at FânFest reflected this state of affairs. The comparison drawing on the survey data appeared nevertheless practicable as the samples represented roughly the same proportion of participants at the two events.

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     8. The logistic regression model was a composite of predictors shown to have a bearing on participation in offline protest, i.e. organisational affiliation (McAdam 1986), participatory experience (Mosca 2008), perceptions of the necessity and effectiveness of participation, movement identification (Postmes and Brunsting 2002) and finally, the ability and experience with using the Internet (Krueger 2002). The regression was run using the block entry method.

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    9. For 90 percent of the respondents, the most popular source of information about the event was the Internet.

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