Birds of a Feather Protest Together: Theorizing Self-Organizing Political Protests with Flock Theory |
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Authors: | Devan Rosen Jang Hyun Kim Yoonjae Nam |
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Institution: | (1) University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA;(2) University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | The current research theorizes decentralized and self-organized political protests via flock theory (Rosen 2002), a theory of emergent self-organization in communicative human interaction. Flock theory draws from a theoretical basis
of emergence and self-organizing systems, and is presented as a theory of decentralized communication structures. Focusing
on the optimization of decentralized networks and roadmap based coordination of organizationally homopholous foci; the current
theory poses a model of human interaction that captures the potentially egalitarian effects of cooperative evolution and collective
action. Case studies of two separate decentralized political protests against Korean government and FARC are offered as evidences
of such phenomena. |
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