Rethinking digital activism
The deconstruction, inclusion, and expansion of the activist body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2654216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bolette Blaagaard (0000-0001-8318-2273, Aalborg University), Mette Marie Roslyng (0000-0001-9480-6969, Aalborg University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 72 |
| Pages | 045-064 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MedieKultur Journal of media and communication research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0900-9671 • E-ISSN: 1901-9726 |
| Publisher | Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7146/mk.v38i72.125721 |
| OpenAlex | W4386109284 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article explores the following research question: How is political activism expressed in connective, affective, and embodied ways, and how do these modes result in a rearticulation of the body and central activist signifiers? While connective and affective dimensions of digital activism offer invaluable insights into the new forms of activist organisation, it remains underexplored how the activist body and the concepts of 'human' and 'rights' are discursively produced through digital expressions of activism. Therefore, drawing on a purposive selection of digital content, we produce a discursive analysis of three illustrative cases of digital activism relating to three major political contemporary issues: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and Extinction Rebellion. We argue that they each present different modes of embodied and discursively constructed signifiers of 'human' and 'rights', which allows for a range of political aims and outcomes to be expressed through different degrees of antagonism calling, respectively, for deconstruction, inclusion, and expansion of the signifiers
Aesthetics · Art · Deconstruction (building · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Inclusion (mineral · Media studies · Political activism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies
The Culture of Connectivity
On the Political
Affective publics and structures of storytelling
Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Bearing Witness While Black
Extinction Rebellion
The affect of the hashtag
I See You, I Believe You, I Stand With You”
Networking the political
MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism
From Counterpublics to Contentious Publicness
The Logic of Connective Action
Occupy's predicament
The regenerative culture of Extinction Rebellion
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Bodies That Matter
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |