Reconstituting digital counterpublics in times of crisis: The case of the United States and the Republic of Georgia
Byron B Craig,
Stephen E. Rahko,
Nathan Carpenter
Abstract:Since the advent of social media at the turn of the 21st century, scholars of communication, cultural studies, and media studies have long been invested in the question of the relationship between social media platforms and the discursive formation of counterpublics for social movement mobilization. In this article, we seek to pose a new question for scholarly inquiry: How do citizens leverage the tools of social media platforms to reconstitute counterpublics in times of crisis? Toward this end, we conduct a c… Show more
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