Augmented Dissent: The Affordances of ICTs for Citizen Protest (A Case Study of the Ukraine Euromaidan Protests of 2013-2014).

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dc.contributor.advisorOates, Sarahen_US
dc.contributor.authorLokot, Tetyanaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentJournalismen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-08T05:38:13Z
dc.date.available2016-09-08T05:38:13Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation research project uses the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine to inform and shape a theory of augmented dissent to help explain the complex ways in which protest participants guided by the political, social, and cultural contexts engage in dissent augmented by ICTs in a reality where both the physical and the digital are used in concert. The purpose of this research is to conceptualize the use and perception of ICTs in protest activity using the communicative affordances framework. Through a mixed-method research approach involving interviews with protest participants, as well as qualitative and thematic analysis of online content from social media pages of several key Euromaidan protest communities, the research project examines the role ICTs played in the information and media landscape during the Euromaidan protest. The findings of the online content analysis were used to inform the questions for the 59 semi-structured, open-ended interviews with Euromaidan protest participants in Ukraine and abroad. The research findings provide in-depth insights about how ICTs were used and perceived by protest participants, and their role as vehicles for information and civic media content. The study employs the theoretical framework of social media affordances to interpret the data gathered during the interviews and content analysis to better understand how digital media augmented citizens’ protest activity through affording them new possibilities for dissent, and how they made meaning of said protest activity as augmented by ICTs. The findings contribute towards shaping a theory of digitally augmented dissent that conceptualizes the complex relationship between citizens and ICTs during protest activity as an affordance-driven one, where online and offline tools and activity merge into a unified dissent space and extend or augment the possibilities for action in interesting, and sometimes unexpected ways. Such a conceptual model could inform broader theories about civic participation and digital activism in the post-Soviet world and beyond, as ICTs become an inseparable part of civic life.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M23J7R
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18742
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJournalismen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCommunicationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEast European studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcitizen mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcommunicative affordancesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddigital mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledICTsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprotesten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUkraineen_US
dc.titleAugmented Dissent: The Affordances of ICTs for Citizen Protest (A Case Study of the Ukraine Euromaidan Protests of 2013-2014).en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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