Alternative media and normative theory: A case of Ferguson, Missouri

Poepsel, Mark; Painter, Chad

doi:10.5937/comman11-9615

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“…Scholarship on social movements and activism has investigated the use of livestreaming in the 2012 Quebec student protests (Thornburn, 2017), the Black Lives Matter movement (Kumanyika, 2017;Poepsel and Painter, 2016), the Dakota Access Pipeline protests (Martini, 2018), as well as Occupy Pittsburgh (Mattoni, 2019), Occupy Wall Street (Gerbaudo, 2017b;Kaun, 2016;Lenzner, 2014) and the 15M (Gerbaudo, 2017b;Montero Sánchez and Candón Mena, 2015). Such work considers livestreaming as a form of what Askanius (2013) terms witness and documentation videos.…”

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“…Since 2011, livestreaming has become a mainstream technology and a core aspect of the social movement infrastructure. Yet in relation to other applications, such as social media platforms, live video transmission has been "[s]tudied much less than circumstances warrant" (Martini, 2018, p. 4039) even though the number of studies is steadily increasing (see for instance, Gerbaudo, 2017b;Kumanyika, 2017;Lenzner, 2014;Martini, 2018;Mattoni, 2019;Montero Sanchez & Candon Mena, 2015;Poepsel and Painter, 2016;Thorburn, 2014Thorburn, , 2017. This article adds to this growing literature by investigating the relationship between livestreaming practices and the democratic cultures of two 'movements of the squares', the 15M in Spain and Occupy in the USA and the UK.…”

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Live democracy and its tensions: making sense of livestreaming in the 15M and Occupy

Kavada

Treré

2019

Information, Communication & Society

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Drawing on one hundred interviews with activists, this article examines the relationship between livestreaming and the democratic cultures of the 15M and Occupy movements.The article investigates how the technical affordances of livestreaming -immediacy, rawness, liveness and embedded/embodied perspective -connect with the movements' understandings of how democracy should be practiced, specifically in terms of political equality, participation and transparency. Our findings identify four sources of tension in the relationship between livestreaming and democratic cultures. Firstly, the use of livestreaming was associated with a radical interpretation of transparency as near-total visibility, which gave rise to tensions around self-surveillance. Secondly, the information overload created through the practice of radical transparency was in tension with the movement's accountability processes. Thirdly, livestreamers attempted to offer an unvarnished access to truth by providing unedited and raw video from the streets. Yet their 2 embodied and subjective first-person perspective was associated with tensions around their power to shape the broadcast. Finally, while livestreaming was used to facilitate equal participation in the movement, participation through the livestream took the meaning of equal access to the experience of the squares, rather than equal power in the decisionmaking process. Our research reveals that despite the national particularities of the contexts in which they arose, Occupy and the 15M were extremely similar in their interpretations and practices of livestreaming and democracy.

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