Limitations - Connective versus Collective Action in Social Movements:

Part 6: Conclusion

6.4 Limitations

In order to keep the thesis as focused and narrow as possible in order to conduct an interesting in-depth analysis some limitations had to be made. The literature review has throughout argued for the use of certain theories or elements, there is however themes that are omitted. One of these is the discussion of motivational factors for actors to engage with networks. It is assumed that participation in these digital networks is self-motivating either based on a common cause or as a part of self-validation, however there is a wide array of intrinsic and extrinsic potentially relevant values that influences the motivation of actors to interact.

The research was conducted based on data manually collected from Twitter. This process voided the data of some complexity and thereby the opportunity for further potentially interesting findings such as conducting a network analysis in order to identify key nodes in the network based on re-tweeted and liked tweets.

The netnographic study also has the limitation that results are difficult to generalize as findings are based on actions and interactions in a specific context. The studied movements are therefore potentially also influenced by interactions taking place at other platforms, but due to limited resources this was not studied.

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Appendices

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