Transnational activism and mobilization of political actors by the hashtag #palestine in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
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https://doi.org/10.21878/compolitica.2023.13.1.653Keywords:
Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Ukraine; Cyberactivism; Memes; Visual communication.Abstract
This article investigates the images shared on Twitter regarding the Palestinian cause associated with the coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to understand their configuration and mobilizing elements and which demands they spread in digital media. By analyzing the images shared with the hashtag #palestine during the first month of the conflict, we argue that their main demand concerns the different ways in which the media and international political agents signify the conflicts and the fighters. Moreover, the current repercussions of the Ukrainian conflict have been used strategically to present the Palestinian issue to wider audiences, in a systematic mobilization of Twitter’s algorithmic logic.
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WOLFSFELD, Gadi; SEGEV, Elad; SHEAFER, Tamir. Social media and the Arab Spring: Politics comes first. The International Journal of Press/Politics, v. 18, n. 2, p. 115-137, 2013.
ZUBOFF, Shoshana. A era do capitalismo de vigilância. Editora Intrínseca, 2021.
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Ramos, D. O., & Baldin, V. P. (2023). Transnational activism and mobilization of political actors by the hashtag #palestine in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Compolítica, 13(1), 77–98. https://doi.org/10.21878/compolitica.2023.13.1.653
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