This sub-project advances a theoretical framework for the transformation between affordances and contentious repertoire in the case of ICTs.
Sub-project 1: To Use or Not to Use: Explicating the Complexity of Repertoire in Digitally Mediated Contentious Politicsīy Jun Liu, Project Leader and Principal Investigator With seven sub-projects studying and comparing people’s deliberations when they turn technologies into contention-related tools in Europe, the United States, and China, the project acknowledges a reality in which technologies serve diverse individuals and communities in disparate ways. This project generates urgently needed knowledge about the issue by exploring how people make choices regarding technology use for politics and social justice across the globe. While the ways people use technology in politics vary across events, contexts, and societies, we know little about the reasoning behind people’s diverse decisions on use and non-use of technology for politics in specific contexts. Rapidly emerging technologies are playing a crucial role in shaping the way in which people engage with politics and pursue social justice, as we see in the cases of Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo movement, and the Arab Spring. This project tackles these challenging questions and studies people’s decisions on (non-)use of technology for contention. To Use or Not to Use? A Relational Approach to ICTs as Repertoire of Contention While we know a lot about the technologies people use in political contention, we know very little about why people choose some but not other technologies, and how people decide on specific political uses of certain technologies.
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