Contentious Storytelling Online
Articulating Activism through Negotiation of Metanarratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria Gonzalez (0000-0002-8793-6471, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 589-607 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0731121419884930 |
| OpenAlex | W3000199613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Narratives are one of the primary ways that activists communicate online and as this study shows, they also prove to be a major source of contention. Analysis of two digital social justice campaigns-the #Wearethe99% narratives (associated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement) and the #BelieveinSwanQueen narratives (associated with the Swan Queen Movement)-suggests that strategies of contentious narrative development online largely involve the negotiation of metanarratives. The online narratives appear to rely upon metanarratives as a foundation for expressing broad societal grievances and personal opinions and struggles. The two dominant strategies for expressing grievances throughout the discourses are the (1) reclaiming and (2) rejecting of 'The American Dream' (#Wearethe99%) and 'Once Upon a Time' (#BelieveinSwanQueen) metanarratives. The negotiation of these metanarratives has led to the development of an alternative 'anti-story,' which serves as narrative structure to navigate both personal and social issues
Art · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social movement · Sociology · Storytelling · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics
Stories of Change
Digitally Enabled Social Change
From social movements to cloud protesting
On social movements and culture
It Was Like a Fever
Understanding Fandom
Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity
Mediatization or mediation? Alternative understandings of the emergent space of digital storytelling
From alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
Undermining anarchy
Narrative Diversity and Sympathetic Abortion
American Sociology’s Investigations of the American Dream
Narratives of Defeat
Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era
The Personalization of Politics
Contending Stories
Character work in social movements
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |