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Global debatesl in media-Transnational Platforms, Affect, and Activism -…
Global debatesl in media-Transnational Platforms, Affect, and Activism
protest cultures
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Imogen Tyler (2013)
in the UK and other places, we need to think critically about whether these protests actually change anything
2010, introduced tuition fees, police were kettling, no food or water
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in contemporary society, state mechanisms and legal interventions to outlaw political groups/forms of protest; rise of far Right and fascist political mobilisation.
in 2011, there was several significant forms of social protest/revolt emerge: the Arab Spring; Spanish Indignados; US and global Occupy movements; UK riots
Important differences between these phenomena, linked to specificities of national cultures; political issues involved (were the UK riots "political")
But also key similarities: popular nature of first three protests; widespread critique of neoliberalism and austerity; use of social media in activism.
How has networked media changed the nature of transnational political activism? And how might we understand the role of emotionl, feelingl, and affect in these processes?
more access to education on subjects, more freedom for gaining own opinion
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Social media, affect, and activism
21st Century: Dominant narrative that social media have fundamentally changed the nature of social activism
Media and cultural theorists explore the links between activism and social media: Castells, 2012; Chomsky, 2013; Fuchs, 2014; Hesse and Hooker, 2017; Mirzoeff, 2017; Pedwell, 2021.
when thinking about technology's impact on social activism, its not neccesarily evil or good
Paulo Gerbaudo, 2012
We need an approach that addresses the uses of networked media in relation to local practices, in historical and contemporary contextsl.
media played a role in social activism: Social media as the contemporary offspring of the newspaper, the poster, the leaflet or direct mail in the labour movement.
can think about it ethnographically, considering the local history
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Social media "are means not simply to convey abstract opinions, but also to give a shape to the way in which people come together and act together […] to choreograph collective action" (p. 13).
online and offline worlds are not seperatl spaces but rather mutually implicatedl-social media is involved in the recasting of the organisation of public space and time
Padwell, 2021
digital and computational technologies are enabling increasingly refined ways to track, discipline and shape embodied practice, for example facial recognition in police surveillance systems
Yet the very digital networks that enable new practices of racial profiling and capitalist extraction also support anti-racist and anti-capitalist political mobilization.
How, as networked activisms, Occupy and Black Lives Matter have used algorithmic technologies to track, contest, and reorient neoliberalism and racial capitalism.
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