La politización del ordinario: fuerzas y debilidades de la movilización digital

Koc-Michalska, Karolina; Chiche, Jean; Vedel, Thierry

doi:10.4000/sds.2523

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“…an educational track (Converse, 1972;Gaxie, 2007). Furthermore, it is important to emphasize the crucial role that education plays in France with reference to online political participation (Michalska et al, 2015). In a similar vein, we do find that when a respondent is employed, s/he is more likely to engage in online activism, thereby strengthening the virtuous triangulation going on between education, employment, and online activism.…”

Section: Who Are the Post-contentious French?supporting

confidence: 65%

“…Yet it should be emphasized that only a minority of citizens is involved in intensive forms of online political participation, while experiences in using the internet as a participative tool for policymaking have generally had a very low audience and impact (Monnooyer-Smith and Wojcik, 2012). This is in line with the fact that active online political participation mainly concerns highly politicized citizens (Michalska et al, 2015), and the internet might well appear as the 'weapon of the strong' (Schlozman et al, 2010), giving still more political resources and power to those who already have them.…”

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A Post-contentious Turning Point for the Contentious French? Crisis Without Protest in France

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Citizens and the Crisis

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confidence: 65%

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A Post-contentious Turning Point for the Contentious French? Crisis Without Protest in France

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Muxel

et al. 2018

Citizens and the Crisis

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“…There is enough evidence that digital culture has the potential to improve political participation. Studies have shown that social media has politically engaged previously inactive participants who now enjoy greater knowledge about current affairs (Curran et al., 2016; Koc-Michalska et al., 2015). Being a member of a political Facebook group is linked to a stronger likelihood of engaging in online but also traditional political participation – from signing online petitions to voting (Loader et al., 2014; Vissers and Stolle, 2014).…”

Section: The Intertwinement Of Politicisation and Aestheticisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technologised consumer culture: The Adorno–Benjamin debate and the reverse side of politicisation

Kurylo

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This paper reanimates the Adorno-Benjamin debate to investigate the potential of contemporary technologised consumer culture to become a space for bottom-up political agency and resistance. For both Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, the technological advancement of the twentieth century had an inherently irrational character, as evidenced by the self-destructive tendencies of humanity during the Second World War. Nonetheless, the thinkers famously disagreed when it came to the implications of the marriage between technology and mass culture. Discerning its potential for the mobilisation of the masses, Benjamin believed that technology would politicise mass culture, allowing society to employ it for its political endsan idea which Adorno debunked. Technologised consumer culture has noticeably evolved since the time of the debate. Nevertheless, revisiting the debate is necessary to understand a sharp contradiction between the expanded possibilities for political participation and the return of the 'auratic' or cultic function of technologised consumer culture. At the same time, the paper shows that technology does politicise consumer culture. However, the pitfall lies in that the politicisation is done through technology as a tool, which is vulnerable to appropriation, granting those who are in the position to control it a substantial political resource. Consequently, the paper argues that the politicisation of consumer culture risks having a reverse effect of facilitating the aestheticising of politicsturning politics into a spectacle. Keywords Technology, consumer culture, the Adorno-Benjamin debate, politicisation, resistance contemporary technologised consumer culture to become a space for bottom-up political agency and resistance. Indeed, if consumerism is so deeply entrenched into the fabric of modern society, one way to deal with it could be to employ technologised consumer culture for the political empowerment of the masses. In so doing, the paper examines the possibility of, using Benjamin's term, politicisation of consumer culture through its interaction with technology. The paper proceeds as follows. First, it reconstructs the two sides of the debate. Benjamin's insights into the decline of 'the aura' and the transformation of art into a vehicle of political communication are counterpoised with an exegesis of Adorno's critique. In dealing with the debate, the most important is to avoid approaching it from the position of who is right or wrong. As the following section illustrates, the debate reflects the ambiguity of contemporary technologised consumer culture, with its simultaneously progressive and regressive potentiality. On the one hand, in addition to endowing consumers with an agency, the new developments have provided unprecedented possibilities for social communication. On the other, their consumption is an investment into the structures, which, on a wider scale, disempower society. The contradictory nature of technologised consumer culture accounts for the combination of a 'progressive' prosum...

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“…They argue that many Internet users when engaged by material they read online proceed generally to seek more information, so become more knowledgeable, more interested in politics, and ultimately more engaged (Jennings and Zeitner, 2003; Wang, 2007; Xenos and Moy, 2007). The greater levels of engagement lead those citizens to enjoy greater knowledge about current affairs and participate more intensively offline (Koc-Michalska et al, 2015); also, these citizens have greater certainty of their electoral choices (Vedel and Koc-Michalska, 2007).…”

Section: Re-imagining Civic Engagement In the Digital Agementioning

confidence: 99%