Inside the "People of the Wheelbarrows": participation between online and offline dimension in the post-quake social movement

Farinosi, Manuela and Trere, Emiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2496-4571 2011. Inside the "People of the Wheelbarrows": participation between online and offline dimension in the post-quake social movement. Presented at: Prato 2011: CIRN CONFERENCE, Prato, Italy, 9-11 November 2011. The Journal of Community Informatics. , vol.6 (3) 10.15353/joci.v6i3.2545

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze a social movement which emerged after the earthquake in L'Aquila (Italy): "The People of the Wheelbarrows". With triangulation of semi-structured interviews, offline ethnography and content analysis of the movement's Facebook group we tried to answer to the following research question: how is the movement's participation articulated between online and the offline dimensions? Our findings show the importance of the local level, the continuous interplay between the online and the offline and the simultaneous use of a variety of online platforms. The results highlight the role that the Web has played in the coordination of the movement and in the management of meetings and events and show that when physical spaces collapse, online spaces acquire a vital importance.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
ISSN:	1712-4441
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	4 October 2010
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2025 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175355

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