| Autor: |
Breindl, Yana, Houghton, Tessa |
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Conference Papers -- International Communication Association; 2010 Annual Meeting, p1, 0p |
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The internet is the site and subject of constant struggle between various discursive projects, each working to stabilise their own discourse or 'ideal internet' into hegemonic status. We comparatively analyse two internet blackout campaigns in France and New Zealand to explore the possibilities for discursive projects or counterpublics to mobilise and participate in transnational forms of protest against analogous threats, by building networked counterpublics that amplify their constituent counter-hegemonic discourses, in line with Laclau & Mouffe's hypothesised 'chains of equivalence' (1985). We argue that if discursive actors struggling to prevent the power elite from establishing hegemonic discursive stabilisation upon and about the Internet wish to be successful, they must further exploit these chains of political association. We analyse the discursive frames articulated by the two blackout campaigns, as well as interview data, to tease out equivalences and latent chains between them, and draw broader conclusions in line with our argument. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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