SOC 2151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hacktivism, 4Chan, Alternative Media
15 Apr 2017
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Cyber-activism: network-based social movement forms: not against globalization, but global in character, computer-supported social networks, reactive (they react towards certain problems), unpredictable, and dynamic movement. Interaction across distances: there are both virtual and physical activities, online and offline political activity. New political activity: list-serv, chat rooms, web pages: web politics". Political movements are mingled with simple things such as memes and trolling". New publics for the circulation of alternative new and information. Grassroots forms of media production, communication, and coordination. This is not connected to a specific organization; it is an anarchist type of group. This notion is the heart of capitalism (private property). Powered by dreams of post-capitalist form of political and social organization at local, regional, and global scales: generation of alternative information; other interpretations of social and scientific facts. There is still a respect for facts and data, but mainstream media frames news in a specific way: exchange of ideas and resources.
