Visual Memes as Neutralizers of Political Dissent by Stefka Hristova

“…I argue that there is a notable distinction between physical participation the Occupy Movement and virtual participation through the reworking of Occupy’s memes, where as the first modality serves as an active disruptor of the political normative imaginary, the second works in precisely the opposite fashion  - in its reconstitution of a common-sense dominant image of the political.…”
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Where Do Social Inequalities Come From?: Class Divides in Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature by Marcial González

“…There’s no denying that the Occupy movement, aside from everything else it has accomplished since 2011, created ample opportunities in college classrooms for teaching about the super wealthy, or the 1%, and their role in reproducing social and economic inequalities in the United States and around the world.  …”
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The digital evolution of occupy wall street. by Michael D Conover, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini

“…The results of this analysis indicate that, on Twitter, the Occupy movement tended to elicit participation from a set of highly interconnected users with pre-existing interests in domestic politics and foreign social movements. …”
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The Propaganda Power of Protest Songs: the Case of Madison's Solidarity Sing-Along by Sheryl Tuttle Ross

“…I will assume the Madison protests and the Solidarity Sing-Along can be considered a paradigm case of peaceful protest as it has been claimed that the Madison protest and the role of art within those protests set the stage for the Occupy Movement protests later in the same year.…”
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“Before Occupy Central, I Wasn’t Concerned”: Examining Participatory Visual Research for Social Change with Hong Kong-based Filipina Youth by Casey Burkholder

“…The study finds that Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement encouraged the participants to see themselves as engaged citizens, participate politically in the territory, and work toward social change for ethnic minorities by engaging different audiences through multiliteracy practices in a research for social change framework.…”
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The Media Representations of Police Image by Wayne W. L. Chan

“…The Hong Kong Police Force has undergone one of its biggest challenges in the Occupy Movement that emerged in the last year. Despite the sheer complexity of the police roles, we know little about its representations in the media coverage, and even less about the extent to which the imagery impacts of police acting as peacekeepers would have been made upon the images of police acting as crime fighters. …”
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Engagements multiples : la rhétorique du GlobalMay Manifesto by Nana Ariel

“…GlobalMay Manifesto, spread on the internet in May 2012, is a collaborative document representing the global Occupy movement, one of few wide-spread international manifestos calling for global democratization, following the global social upheavals of 2011. …”
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Powerlessness as Potential by Gigi Argyropoulou, Georg Döcker, Eve Katsouraki

“…Her analysis of the problematics and aspirations of a collective aesthetic in performance-making, discussed in relation to the occupy movement and the future of political performance in public spaces, offers us a sobering yet optimistic view of theatre in times of crisis as well as of the potential of theatre-making in future radical projects of protest, collectivity, and resistance. …”
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The Politics of Presence: How Online Activity Informs Offline Activism by Daglas Raškof

“…The author claims that The Occupy Movement, as a post-narrative project conceived in a digital environment, is less of a political activity, and more a new way of behavior for its members and for the society at large. …”
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V For Vendetta Novel Grafis sebagai Ikon Revolusi by Nadia Aghnia Fadhillah

“…In October 2011, the biggest protests in history demand for politic and economy equality: Occupy Movement. Anonymous took big role in the movement. …”
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“This Time We Take the Engine!”: Class War in Dystopian Films of the Occupy Era by Daniel Koechlin

“…In the wake of the Occupy movement, a group of dystopian films were released that, despite many differences, share a unique series of characteristics. …”
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Hong Kong protests: A quantitative and bottom-up account of resistance against Chinese social media (sina weibo) censorship by Jingyi Zhao

“…To fill this research gap, this article uses the Occupy movement in Hong Kong as a research case to analyze social media users’ resistance under conditions of heavy censorship from a bottom-up perspective. …”
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Psychological Sense of Community as an Example of Prefiguration Among Occupy Protesters by Magda Permut

“…This framework suggests that the Occupy movement created a protest space wherein participants experienced positive sense of community at the micro-level (the Occupy site), which often contrasted with their neutral or negative sense of community at the macro-level (the United States). …”
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Manufacturing Consent revisited by Michael Burawoy

“…The first manifestation of this change is the Occupy movement.…”
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Manufacturing Consent revisité by Michael Burawoy

“…The first manifestation of this change is the Occupy movement.…”
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Al di qua e al di là del muro: movimenti sociali in Israele e Palestina by Sabina Leoncini

“…Moving to the other side of the wall, in the summer of 2011  the protest inflamed, following the heels of the Occupy movement, against the rising of the price of the "cottage cheese" and especially of housing, particularly in the economic capital ofIsrael, Tel Aviv, where property’s prices have reached staggering proportions. …”
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Al di qua e al di là del muro: movimenti sociali in Israele e Palestina by Sabina Leoncini

“…Moving to the other side of the wall, in the summer of 2011  the protest inflamed, following the heels of the Occupy movement, against the rising of the price of the "cottage cheese" and especially of housing, particularly in the economic capital ofIsrael, Tel Aviv, where property’s prices have reached staggering proportions. …”
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Al di qua e al di là del muro: movimenti sociali in Israele e Palestina by Sabina Leoncini

“…Moving to the other side of the wall, in the summer of 2011  the protest inflamed, following the heels of the Occupy movement, against the rising of the price of the "cottage cheese" and especially of housing, particularly in the economic capital ofIsrael, Tel Aviv, where property’s prices have reached staggering proportions. …”
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Vom Schutzwall zur Wall Street Ingo Schulzes Schelmenroman Peter Holtz, die Mauer und das System des Geldes by Paolo Panizzo

“…In the years of the 2008 world financial crisis and of the global protests of the Occupy-Movement, the German author Ingo Schulze writes a novel about the German reunification, in which he tells the story of the ‘GDR-rogue’ Peter Holtz fighting for a fairer society. …”
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What the Recovery Movement Tells Us About Prefigurative Politics by Melinda Beckwith, Ana-Maria Bliuc, David Best

“…The concept of prefigurative politics has re-emerged following recent worldwide uprisings, such as the Occupy movement, to which this concept has been applied. …”
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