Social Media as a Mechanism for Protest Mobilization in the Modern Ukrainian Society
Journal Title: Український соціум - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 52
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the functioning mechanism of the social media mobilization with afocus on protest forms of political participation. In the presented article, author outlines the difference betweentraditional and social media withthe focus on mechanisms of mass mobilization; analyzes the prerequisitesrelevance of this matter in modern Ukrainian society. In empirical part of the paper, the data of Omnibus studyconducted by the Department of History and Theory of Sociology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in Marchof 2014 (N-397) is presented. A number of parameters that characterize the respondents’ behavior in a socialmedia, and forms of respondents’ political participation offline were analyzed, using the index of destabilization ofprotest potential. Author found evidence to support that activity in social media is related to the form ofrespondents’ political participation, as in the conventional terms (through membership in NGOs) and inunconventional terms (through integrated index of destabilization potential of protest). At the same time there is aquestion which author was unable to answer whether the willingness of social media users is real or only a virtualpolitical activity.
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Bohdan Vakhula
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