Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web

McCaughey, Martha

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“…In contrast, another strand of research focuses not on the politics of what the Internet is politically doing to subjects but how subjects variously engage with platforms to do politics. Subjects organise and mobilise political protests (Fuchs, 2014), engage in citizen journalism (Blaagaard, 2013) or forms of digital activism (McCaughey, 2014;Yang, 2009;Tatarchevskiy, 2011), and challenge or hack conventions of the Internet such as copyright laws (Coleman, 2013;Jordan and Taylor, 2004). Activists who engage in anti-surveillance resistance also invoke different technological resistance strategies such that their acts cannot be reduced to one interpretation (Dencik et al, 2016).…”

Section: Doing and Subjectivity: Performing Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing words with things of the Internet

Ruppert¹

2020

Soziologie Des Digitalen - Digitale Soziologie?

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Much of social and political life is now conducted through the Internet and social and power relations are ever more entwined with digital life. How might digital sociology then attend to fundamental sociological questions of power and subjectivity as people variously act through the Internet? There are of course many studies of how the Internet is remaking sociality, social networks, publics, politics, identities, subjectivities, or human-technology interactions. In various ways, they attend to how the Internet is altering relations not only between people but also between people and vast arrangements of sociotechnical conventions that have become part of everyday language, such as tweeting, messaging, friending, emailing, blogging, sharing, and so on. Interpreting the digital data that these 'registers of action' generate and their different forms of subjectivity represent an interpretive challenge for digital sociology and its emerging digital methods. In response to this challenge, I offer a conceptual framing that starts from Bruno Latour's account of 'how to do words with things' to interpret the various ways that subjects 'do words with things of the Internet'. The framing builds on the formulation that when subjects act they perform different subject positions that are composites of obedience, submission, and subversion. I then focus on subjects who perform digital acts by subverting conventions of the Internet to make rights claims and in doing so bring a political subjectivity called the digital citizen into being.

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Section: Doing and Subjectivity: Performing Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing words with things of the Internet

Ruppert¹

2020

Soziologie Des Digitalen - Digitale Soziologie?

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“…The symbolic use of art for promoting social change has formed the crux of several reactionary global movements, spanning the fragmented left and right branches of the political spectrum, with strong digitally interactive dimensions. Digital artivism appropriates art practice, taking a pivotal role in connecting publics and politics and fostering social change in online spaces (McCaughey, 2014). However, just as the use and occupation of the urban commons varies according to geography and political context, so does the weight and significance of politically networked art in digital (anti-)commons.…”

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confidence: 99%

Digital geographies of public art: New global politics

Zebracki

Luger

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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Responding to geography’s digital and political turns, this article presents an original critical synthesis of the under-examined niche of networked geographies of public-art practices in today’s politicised digital culture. This article advances insights into digital public art as politics, and its role in politicising online public spaces with foci on: how digital technologies have instigated do-it-yourself modes for the co-creation of art content within peer-to-peer contexts; the way art is ‘stretched’ and experienced in/across the digital public sphere; and how user-(co-)created content has become subject to (mis)uses, simultaneously informed by digital ‘artivism’ and a new global politics infused with populism.

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“…Thus, internet and social media have an important impact in democracy (Hacker & Van Dijk 2000). Despite some researchers claim that internet is overstated (Gladwell 2010;Weyland, 2012), the truth is that the massive use of social media by youth is leading a debate on the key role of technology in cyberactivism (Banaji & Buckinjam, 2010;Carty & Reynoso Barron, 2019;Colombo Villarrasa, 2007;Cotarelo & Crespo, 2012;Coombs, 2009;Chamberlain, 2004;García Galera & Hurtado, 2013;Gerodimos, 2010;Karakaya, 2005;Khamis & Alwadi, 2015;Khamis, 2017;McCaughey, 2014;Mccaughey & Ayers, 2003;Sampedro, 2011;Sandoval-Almazan & Gil-García, 2014;Shadrin, 2000, asi cited in Rudenko, 2009Sierra Caballero, 2018;Sirkkunen & Kotilainen, 2004;Ugarte, 2007;Ward, 2005). That is especially with regard to the promotion of youth political participation and engagement.…”

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Videoactivism and Construction of Mediatic Identities, Youtube and #YoSoy132

Solá-Morales

2020

anagramas rumbos sentidos comun.

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The main goal of this paper is to analyze #YoSoy132 construction of mediatic iden-tities through videoactivism, and to question if YouTube was determinant or simply instrumental in the implosion of the movement. During the 2012 “Mexican Spring”, stu-dents and citizens not only occupied the streets to quest for a “real democracy” or to express their dissent through very significant demonstrations, but they also occupied the internet to protest. First of all, identity features of the movement are analyzed in relation with the following variables: 1) nucleus of belonging, 2) main sociodemographic features, 3) forms of leadership, 4) interests, 5) collective identity, and 6) relationship with otherness. Second, through a qualitative methodology —content analysis—, this paper analyzes the most relevant pieces of videoactivism produced by young adults. This study focused on the role and function of the videos to know if social media was “instrumental” or “determinant”. Third, mediatic identities represented in the videos are analyzed by exploring the following aspects: a) protagonists appearing in the vid-eos: main role, gender and age range, b) locations where these characters appear and c) type of identity represented: hegemonic or counter-hegemonic, majority or minority. The main result of this research is that a resistence and contra-hegemonic identity is created through YouTube videos by young Mexicans. Moreover, being #YoSoy132 goes far beyond being young, student or belonging to a specific university. In this regard, the scenario is not occupied by a single subject or specific group of people, but it belongs to the “oppressed” and to persons at risk or discrimination.

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Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web

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Doing words with things of the Internet

Doing words with things of the Internet

Digital geographies of public art: New global politics

Videoactivism and Construction of Mediatic Identities, Youtube and #YoSoy132

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