Mapping Movements

Collaborative research project with sky croeser, 2012-2019; global activism, digital media, physical space, social movements, and data critique, from Occupy Oakland to anti-fascist activism in Greece, via the World Social Forum.

For more about the research, see sky’s post on wrapping up the project.

Related publications
sky croeser & Tim Highfield (2018). ‘Blended Data: Critiquing and Complementing Social Media Datasets, Big and Small‘. In: J. Hunsinger, L. Klastrup, & M. M. Allen (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer.

Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield (2015). ‘Harbouring dissent: Greek independent and social media and the antifascist movement’. Fibreculture, (26), pp. 136-157 [online].

Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield (2015). ‘Mapping Movements – Social Movement Research and Big Data: Critiques and Alternatives’. In G. Langlois, J. Redden, & G. Elmer (Eds.) Compromised Data. From Social Media to Big Data. Bloomsbury. pp. 173-201.

Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield (2014). ‘Occupy Oakland and #oo: Uses of Twitter within the Occupy movement’. First Monday, 19(3). [online]