The communicative constitution of atomization
Online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 22693248 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Emil Husted (0000-0001-5270-7831, Copenhagen Business School), Sine Nørholm Just (0000-0002-4179-2708, Roskilde University, autor de correspondencia), Erik Mygind Du Plessis (0000-0002-1050-6561, University of Southern Denmark), Sara Dahlman (0000-0003-3565-8665, Roskilde University) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 73 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 368-381 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/joc/jqad005 |
| OpenAlex | W4320492633 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 52 |
As environmental and societal crises increase in numbers, severity, and urgency, online forums for so-called “doomsday preppers” have seen a concomitant surge in membership. Beginning from the perspective of communicative constitution of organization, we explore the sociotechnical communities that emerge on such forums. Methodologically, we use netnographic observations to show that online prepper communities are organizational, in the sense of being networks of communicative episodes that use common narratives to build identities around material objects and physical practices. However, the online prepper communities do not move from the enactment of organization to acting as organizations. This observation leads us to conceptualize online prepper communities as atomizations whose communicative constitution does not entail a capacity for collective action, but only manifests the similarity of disparate individuals. The communicative constitution of atomization, we argue, is symptomatic of an underlying social logic, which promotes individualized responses to collective problems.
Action (physics) · Collective action · Communicative action · Constitution · Crisis communication · Physics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citas por año | 5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |