Chris Robé
Biographic Data
| ID | 4432024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Robé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Robé |
| SIGNATURE | ROBE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8557-7818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Post-Melancholia Belfast: Street Art, Tourism, and the Contested Visions of a Wounded City
This essay explores the numerous roles that visual art plays for tourism in various Belfast neighborhoods. In the commercial districts of City Centre, Cathedral Quarter, and the Titanic Quarter, street art and other tourist attractions like the Titanic Museum offer a sanitized past or ignore the city’s troubled history altogether. In the working-class districts of North, East, and West Belfast, political murals mark territories and serve as cease…
Painting over the Troubles: Street art, class, and re-imaging Belfast
Reflections on the inheritances of Indymedia in the age of surveillance and social media
Despite certain structural limitations, Indymedia provided three vital functions for movement-based media coverage: (1) it established a secure website that shielded its users’ identities when navigating it or producing content, (2) its platform united sympathetic reporting on local and global struggles that fueled an imaginary of worldwide struggle, and (3) it established behind-the-scenes momentum in engaging new participants in independent med…
Rewiring the Apparatus: Screen Theory, Media Activism, and Working-Class Subjectivities
This essay utilizes concepts from screen theory to better understand the function of socially engaged documentaries. In particular, it explores how the media practices of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) allow us to refocus our analysis to take account of the utilization of media by social movements in ways that stress the collective and empowering role it can have for fostering class-based identities. As such, we aim to highlight the materiali…
Suturing Working Class Subjectivities: Media Mobilizing Project and the Role of Media Building a Class-Based Social Movement
Due to the increasingly atomized, isolated nature of social life, as well as the apparent splintering of the working class under neoliberal capitalism, media serve a pivotal infrastructural function for generating the necessary commonality between the fractured sectors of the contemporary working class. This article ethnographically and textually examines how the media driven practices of the Philadelphia-based Media Mobilizing Project helps coll…
Reflections on the inheritances of Indymedia in the age of surveillance and social media
Despite certain structural limitations, Indymedia provided three vital functions for movement-based media coverage: (1) it established a secure website that shielded its users’ identities when navigating it or producing content, (2) its platform united sympathetic reporting on local and global struggles that fueled an imaginary of worldwide struggle, and (3) it established behind-the-scenes momentum in engaging new participants in independent med…
Rewiring the Apparatus: Screen Theory, Media Activism, and Working-Class Subjectivities
This essay utilizes concepts from screen theory to better understand the function of socially engaged documentaries. In particular, it explores how the media practices of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) allow us to refocus our analysis to take account of the utilization of media by social movements in ways that stress the collective and empowering role it can have for fostering class-based identities. As such, we aim to highlight the materiali…
Suturing Working Class Subjectivities: Media Mobilizing Project and the Role of Media Building a Class-Based Social Movement
Due to the increasingly atomized, isolated nature of social life, as well as the apparent splintering of the working class under neoliberal capitalism, media serve a pivotal infrastructural function for generating the necessary commonality between the fractured sectors of the contemporary working class. This article ethnographically and textually examines how the media driven practices of the Philadelphia-based Media Mobilizing Project helps coll…
Rewiring the Apparatus: Screen Theory, Media Activism, and Working-Class Subjectivities
This essay utilizes concepts from screen theory to better understand the function of socially engaged documentaries. In particular, it explores how the media practices of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) allow us to refocus our analysis to take account of the utilization of media by social movements in ways that stress the collective and empowering role it can have for fostering class-based identities. As such, we aim to highlight the materiali…
Reflections on the inheritances of Indymedia in the age of surveillance and social media
Despite certain structural limitations, Indymedia provided three vital functions for movement-based media coverage: (1) it established a secure website that shielded its users’ identities when navigating it or producing content, (2) its platform united sympathetic reporting on local and global struggles that fueled an imaginary of worldwide struggle, and (3) it established behind-the-scenes momentum in engaging new participants in independent med…
Post-Melancholia Belfast: Street Art, Tourism, and the Contested Visions of a Wounded City
This essay explores the numerous roles that visual art plays for tourism in various Belfast neighborhoods. In the commercial districts of City Centre, Cathedral Quarter, and the Titanic Quarter, street art and other tourist attractions like the Titanic Museum offer a sanitized past or ignore the city’s troubled history altogether. In the working-class districts of North, East, and West Belfast, political murals mark territories and serve as cease…
Painting over the Troubles: Street art, class, and re-imaging Belfast
Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social media (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Class (philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)