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Documenting resistance, conflict and violence: a scoping review of the role of participatory digital platforms in the mobilisation of resistance

Fife, Kirsty; Flinn, Andrew; Nyhan, Julianne; (2023) Documenting resistance, conflict and violence: a scoping review of the role of participatory digital platforms in the mobilisation of resistance. Archival Science 10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

In recent years, grassroots movements have gained traction and significant numbers globally. Against longer histories of resistance and protest movements’ mobilisation of documentation, mechanisation and digital technologies, this scoping literature review seeks to understand how resistance and social movements have drawn upon the participatory and easily accessible nature of social media and digital platforms to mobilise new generations of activists, create new archives, document activities and abuses, call for accountability and overwrite or challenge the narratives put forward by mainstream media outlets and state archives. We identify relevant projects, explore the activist potential and threats of the combination of digital technologies, social movements, and documentary or archival practice, before concluding by identifying open research questions in relation to digital technologies, social movements and archival practice.

Type: Article
Title: Documenting resistance, conflict and violence: a scoping review of the role of participatory digital platforms in the mobilisation of resistance
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09416-8
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Archives, Social movements, Activism, Digital activism, Digital archives, Community-led archives
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169315
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