Nils Gustafsson
elite networks, political communication & social media
Mainstreaming the Alternative: the Changing Media Practices of Protest Movements
Författare
Summary, in English
the likeminded? Or, do the use of these media point towards a mainstreaming
process of political cultures of resistance to the establishment, eroding their very raison d’être? Combining a theoretical discussion of the inherent paradoxes in the celebration of new media technology as a source of democratisation and empowerment of civic cultures with an empirical focus aimed at exploring the changing repertoire of communicative tools used by social movement actors, this paper analyses two cases of online media practices in contemporary Scandinavian protest movements: 1) A series of civil disobedience actions and mobilisations of mass demonstrations before and after the eviction and destruction of the Youth House (Ungdomshuset) in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2007-2008; 2) The popular
demonstrations in connection with the European Social Forum in Malmö, Sweden
in September 2008.
Avdelning/ar
- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
- Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
23-41
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Interface: a journal for and about social movements
Volym
2
Issue
2
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Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Ämne
- Political Science
- Media and Communications
Nyckelord
- social network sites
- political communication
- protest movements
- social media
- protest culture
- social movements
- viral politics
Status
Published
Projekt
- Viral politik. Politisk mobilisering i sociala medier
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 2009-2431