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- Title
Romanian Rezist Protest. How Facebook Helps Fight Political Corruption.
- Authors
PATRUT, Monica; STOICA, Virgil
- Abstract
Immediately after the parliamentary elections in December 2016, the Social Democratic Party wants to amend the criminal legislation and pardon through an revolting ordinance, which caused a third wave of protests in post-December Romania. The core of the protests was made of social activists who held the position of network nodes, had previous experience and acted as rallying coagulant factors in the January-February 2017 events. In the present study, we focused our attention only on the online community: Corruption kills (in Romanian: Coruptia ucide), this being the oldest and most active in the Romanian social media. We wanted to show to what extent the representatives of this community managed to: a) increase the number of fans (involved) who supported the cause of the anti-corruption protests; and b) how Facebook was used as an interactive communication tool for users between January and February 2017. The Corruption Kills Community was perceived as a powerful tool of organization and rallying in the 2017 protest.
- Subjects
POLITICAL corruption; FACEBOOK (Web resource); PUBLIC demonstrations; ELECTIONS; ROMANIAN politics &; government
- Publication
Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 2019, Vol 66, p214
- ISSN
1583-3410
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33788/rcis.66.13