Oppositional Politics and the Internet

A Critical/Reconstructive Approach

Bibliographic Data

ID6141561
AuthorsR Kahn, Douglas Kellner (0000-0002-1643-6744)
Year2005
Volume1
Issue1
Pages75-100
Publication date2005-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2752/174321905778054926
OpenAlexW2109869336
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited12

We argue that the continued growth of the Internet, both as a form of mainstream media and as a tool for organizing democratic social interactions, requires that Internet politics be retheorized from a standpoint that is both critical and reconstructive. While we undertake an approach that is critical of corporate forms and hegemonic uses of the Internet, we advocate for new software developments such as blogs and trace the oppositional deployments of the Internet made by a wide variety of groups in the cause of progressive cultural and political struggle. In this regard, we describe how the Internet has facilitated the worldwide emergence of the anti-globalization, anti-war and anti-capitalism movements, even as it has coalesced local communities and groups, and so we conclude that the future of Internet politics must be thought dialectically as both global and local. We end by noting the relevance of the ideas of Guy Debord, with his focus on the construction of situations, the use of technology, media of communication and cultural forms to promote a revolution of everyday life

Capitalism · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Everyday life · Globalization · Hegemony · Mainstream · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Information Society and Technology Trends · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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