Networked Publics

The Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook

Bibliographic Data

ID14784147
AuthorsGanaele Langlois (0000-0002-3947-5287, University of Ontario, corresponding author), G Elmer (0000-0002-5372-3072, Toronto Metropolitan University), Fenwick Mckelvey (0000-0002-7584-1133, Toronto Metropolitan University), Zachary Devereaux (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Year2009
Volume34
Issue3
Pages415-434
Publication date2009-09-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0705-3657 • E-ISSN: 1499-6642
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22230/cjc.2009v34n3a2114
OpenAlexW1681842270
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited12

Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradictory ways. Using Maurizio Lazzarato’s exploration of immaterial labour (2004), we demonstrate the need to further understand the networking of publics and their issues by considering how online platforms provide the material, communicational, and social means for a public to exist and therefore define the parameters for assembling issues and publics and circumscribe a horizon of political agency

Agency (philosophy · Articulation (sociology · Code (set theory · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public sphere · Publics · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Software deployment · Computer Science · Engineering · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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