The yellow vests and the communicative constitution of a protest movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8065033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Clifton (0000-0002-4788-4726, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, corresponding author), Patrice De La Broise (Université de Lille) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 362-382 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse & Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4813 • E-ISSN: 1750-4821 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750481320910516 |
| OpenAlex | W3007133765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 39 |
Contemporary protest movements are skeptical of mainstream media outlets, and so to communicate, they make extensive use of social media such as YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. Most research to date has considered how protest movements, as preexistent entities, use such social media to communicate with stakeholders, but little, if any research, has considered how a protest movement is constituted in and through communication. Using the Montreal School’s ventriloquial approach to communication and using YouTube video footage of the gilets jaunes – a contemporary French protest movement – in action, the purpose of this article is to explicate how a protest movement that resists the state’s authority is constituted in and through a textual artifact (a video clip on YouTube). Findings indicate that the protest movement is not only discursively constructed through the commentary that accompanies the video, but it is also constituted by non-human actants such as space, buildings and clothing. The protest movement mobilizes networks of human and non-human actants that invoke a moral authority that resists legally authorized state-sponsored networks which are also made up of human and non-human actants
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Alternative media · Art · Constitution · Epistemology · Mainstream · Media studies · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Social media · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · Education, sociology, and vocational training · French Urban and Social Studies · Law
Maximising salience of interpretivist research findings
The voice of the work to be made
Digital resource abundance
Geography of contestation
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas
Twitter as a leadership actor — A communication as constitutive of organizing perspective on a ‘leaderless’ social movement
Signifying dissent
Networked social movements and radicalisation
Representing Reality
The Precariat
Turn-Sharing
Sociomaterial Practices
Studies in ethnomethodology
Action and Agency in Dialogue
For a constitutive pragmatics
Internet and Social Movement Action Repertoires
The relational ontology of resistance
Communication Theory at the Center
The Sociology of an Actor-Network
Media and Revolt
Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality
Posthumanist Performativity
Reassembling the Social
The Mediation of Insurrectionary Symbolic Damage
Media Practices, Mediation Processes, and Mediatization in the Study of Social Movements
Protest logics and the mediation opportunity structure
Social movements
Leadership as the Hybrid Production of Presence(s)
Conceptualizing Resistance
Communication, Organizing and Organization
Les « gilets jaunes
Dimensions of Everyday Resistance
Free spaces' in collective action
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |