Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- List of abbreviations
- Introductıon
- Digital Activism on Social Media
- Bringing together activists over cyber populism
- Digital Activism’s Impact On Gen Z: A Social Media Platform Analysis
- Women plus movement as an achievement
- Eco-criticism in “I Am Greta” documentary film design
- New Media and Digital Activism in the Framework
- Reading hacktivism over the Russia-Ukraine war: The case of Anonymous
- Digital activism in Twitter post against censorship/mobing in the cinema: “The Bergen” movie
- Nomophobia triggered by digital activism and its place in academic studies
- Virtual Reality and Digital Gaming Experiences in Turkey
- Notes on Contributors
Preface
Social movements, which have emerged in almost every period of history against the status quo due to inequality or injustice, have started to be used to define organised and sustained collective actions towards a collective goal since the second half of the 19th century. Such social movements, which usually have a class-based structure, are organised around a certain ideology and led by a leader, have gradually been stripped of class-based organisations and left to new social movements focusing on concepts such as rights, justice and identity for political, economic and/or social change. Spanning a wide range of activities, activism is the effort of groups of people organised in line with common interests to express their thoughts and ideas about the problem through demonstration. Especially after the 1960s, the development of technology and multidimensional social and global changes such as cultural identity, equality, ecology, feminism, anti-nuclear activism have enabled the formation and diversification of new social movements. These new social movements have evolved into communities with equal rights of governance rather than having leaders at the center, despite their anti-bureaucratic organizational structure. The idea of activism has changed how people protest or oppose any circumstance or occurrence as a result of the growth of the Internet and digital technologies. Indeed, the rapid development of digital technologies has radically changed the world of communication and has had profound effects on social dynamics. One of the most prominent examples of these effects is the concept of digital activism. In its broadest sense, activism refers to a series of actions that aim to bring about social change. Research in fields such as communication, sociology, political science, art, media studies and psychology all emphasise the impact of activism on society and its potential for change. The concept of digital activism, which basically refers to the whole of interactive actions carried out through digital tools and communication technologies, has gained a new dimension by combining traditional activism practices with digital tools and platforms. In actuality, digital activism—a movement seeking social change via the use of information and communication tools—has the potential to offer quick and simple access to information in today’s world where technology penetrates every part of our existence. Activist actions that originate for a cause should be realized using the codes provided by visual culture in order to increase consciousness among communities and foster a sense of shared purpose. As a matter of fact, the communication established through visual design ensures that any message conveyed on a subject is easily perceived and spread by individuals or groups. In this context, purposeful design language is very important for digital activism.
The book “Digital Activism and Design” was prepared under the editorship of Assoc. Prof. Begüm Aylin Önder and myself and is a compilation created with the contributions of valuable authors. This book is enriched with research written by experts from different fields such as communication, new media technologies, journalism and visual design. Each author addresses different aspects of digital activism and design from his/her own area of expertise and provides readers with an in-depth analysis. In this respect, the book is an important meeting point at the intersection of digital activism, communication and visual design. In this context, the book analyzes the interactions of different fields in detail and emphasises how digital activism has shaped these disciplines and played a transformative role. With its diversity of approaches and facets of digital activism, this collective study aims to provide readers with a rich perspective on the rise of social movements on digital platforms and their current impact in our rapidly changing world. It also hopes to serve as a significant resource for understanding the current role of digital activism and design and to serve as an inspiration for future research. In this context, I would like to congratulate the valuable academics who have helped us in the creation of this work titled “Digital Activism and Design”, which we think will make important contributions to the literature.
Have a pleasant reading!
Foreword
The concept of activism, which is partly a new concept with a history starting in 1960 and extending to the present day, means, in its most basic definition, taking action, shaping or changing. Within the scope of activism, which is basically a sociological change, it is also possible to reach various concepts such as protest, struggle, resistance and defense. As a matter of fact, activism means the struggle for the future of societies, and this change is not always innovative, but sometimes it can also emerge in line with conservative tendencies and goals. Activism as a form of action means supporting a group or community in contentious situations, in short, taking an oppositional stance. This concept, which involves qualitative social changes and reforms, can occur in all participatory social movements. Civil movement theory, as a sub-branch of activism, has a multidisciplinary structure that examines in which environments potential, cultural, economic and political situations arise, how and how they occur, and the effects of their consequences. In this context, civil movement theory has an innovative philosophy through social reforms and deals with situations that foresee or cause change.
As it is known, in today’s world where communication technologies are constantly evolving, the role of the Internet in the communication process has changed to the same extent by having a fast and interactive infrastructure. As a matter of fact, after Web 2.0 technologies, the transformation of user pages into personalized ones has placed them at the center, and thus diversity has emerged in social media channels. In this way, in line with common values and interests, people can now come together not only in a physical space they determine on their own initiative, but also in cyberspace as spaceless and timeless, share their ideas through different social media tools, form public opinion and act jointly in line with common goals.
The idea of activism is understood in this context to be both a product and a cause of globalization, and changes in information and communication technology have given rise to the idea of activism taking on new dimensions. With the aid of information and communication technology, people who band together in support of shared aims and objectives within their community have transitioned to cyberspace and given rise to the movement known as digital activism. Thus, individuals can come together within the spaces created by virtual environments, perform and coordinate in a coordinated manner, especially the features of the Internet such as allowing freedoms, allowing the dissemination of information in the cross-border area without the concept of time and space, and they can transform their thoughts into widespread in a faster and shorter time together with groups like themselves. This allows for positive outcomes for digital activism. Moreover, digital activism also contributes to the development of online public support, which in turn allows for the proliferation of social and political movements. The concept of online activism, often known as net protest, hacktivism, slactivism, cyberterrorism, or cyberjamming, is ever developing and changing. A digital activist action must make use of all the codes of visual and verbal culture in order to develop a collective consciousness. A subject can be quickly understood through the use of visual codes, which are the most active way to spread ideas and opinions about it.
In this respect, this study aims to evaluate the phenomenon of digital activism and design through different texts. In this context, the study aims to be a reference source for possible studies in this field.
Prof. Dr. Deniz YENGİN & Assoc. Prof. Begüm Aylin Önder
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Introduction
The history of humanity are showing that the breaking point of all economic, political and cultural processes that directly affect the life of societies began with new inventions in information and communication tools, in short, with technology-induced destruction. In ancient times, messages transmitted through drums or heliography without a messenger, cave complexes, stone surfaces or the first drawings representing the first examples of visual works in connection with technology, opened the doors to a new era by radically changing the communication infrastructure thanks to the discovery of the telegraph. As a matter of fact, immediately after the introduction of iron as a transport network, a great change occurred in the transmission of news. Following the discovery of electricity, the footsteps of this change and transformation in the field of communication began in 1837 when Samuel Morse transformed the form of communication into telegraphy with the Morse code consisting of dots and dashes. Thus, telegraph networks began to reach everywhere the railway network reached. Now, communication has gone down in history as an important step where the concept of distance has gained meaning from the beginning and communication can be done quickly wherever there is transportation. So much so that in the 19th century, the telegraph became an important tool through which individual, community and international communication could be easily carried out. This process, which marks the beginning of the “information age”, has initiated a transformation in the field of communication. It has led to significant global changes by eliminating geographical restrictions on time and space. Towards the end of this century, in addition to the telegraph, with the widespread use of newspapers and photography, the global transformation of communication has reached an unpredictable speed. “Technologically, James Watt’s invention of the steam engine in 1765 and its subsequent use as an energy source, economically Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” in 1776 and politically the French Revolution of 1789 have been turning points (Özçağlayan, 1998: 21).” As it is known, the industrial society, which we can define as technological destruction and which was reshaped thanks to the machines working with steam as the main energy source; where the production of material products, raw materials and market ecosystem gained importance, has shown an unprecedented change after the second quarter of the 20th century and has completely reshaped the society-individual life within the globe. The use of steam power in the field of production brought about a significant increase in textile products and opened the door to new types of trade routes, this development led to the emergence of new types of urbanisation and changes in the field of agricultural activity inevitably penetrated into human life. As a matter of fact, the sovereignty of land and capital took over after this date with the proof of the maturity of technology and inventions. Henceforth, the industrial society started to change one after another with ongoing inventions that were fed by production.
Details
- Pages
- 264
- Publication Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631893203
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631893210
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631880944
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20371
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (August)
- Keywords
- Cybersickness Digital ecstasy New media Social media Technology addiction Virtual reality
- Published
- Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2024. 264 pp., 15 fig. b/w, 54 tables.
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