Everyone a pamphleteer? Reconsidering comparisons of mediated public participation in the print age and the digital era

Moe, Hallvard

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“…Despite state authorities' attempts to stop bloggers and block their sites, Kelly and Etling argue that the blogosphere ''may represent the most open public communications platform for political discourse'' in Iran today (Kelly & Etling, 2008, p. 2). It is worth noting these basic features, since they have a clear impact on the role of blogging in the public sphere (Moe, 2010).…”

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Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere: Methodological Challenges in Internationalizing Internet Research

Moe

2010

Social Science Computer Review

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Even as the blog has become an established genre of computer-mediated communication, questions remain about how different blogs are from mass media, and what the transformative potential of blogging is. This article argues for the need for further explorations, especially outside the Anglo-American blogosphere. The article discusses key challenges in light of an ongoing research project aiming to gain insight into how blogging in Norway-a small democratic nation state with a correspondingly small language area-compares to other cases and to assess how online media participation matters for the structure of the public sphere. On this basis, the article presents preliminary findings from a mapping of the Norwegian blogosphere.

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Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere: Methodological Challenges in Internationalizing Internet Research

Moe

2010

Social Science Computer Review

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“…At the time, 'pamphlets had become part of the everyday practice of politics, the primary means of creating and influencing public opinion' (Raymond, 2003: 26). With the rise of the journalistic press in England in the 1800s, pamphlets evolved into spaces for 'a sort of footnote or marginal comment on official history' (Orwell, 1948: 15), in some ways presaging the rise of blogs 200 years later (Moe, 2010). Similarly, Robert Darnton's (1995) analysis of the news in pre-revolutionary France highlights what could be considered as a hybrid media system.…”

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Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies

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In this article, we discuss the rise and use of the concept of hybridity in journalism studies. Hybridity afforded a meaningful intervention in a discipline that had the tendency to focus on a stabilized and homogeneous understanding of the field. Nonetheless, we now need to reconsider its deployment, as it only partially allows us to address and understand the developments in journalism. We argue that if scholarship is to move forward in a productive manner, we need, rather than denote everything that is complex as hybrid, to develop new approaches to our object of study. Ultimately, this is an open invitation to the field to adopt experientialist, practice-based approaches that help us overcome the ultimately limited binary dualities that have long governed our theoretical and empirical work in the field.

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“…The role of the media, according to Moe (2010), should be to allow those at the political periphery easier access to the political core. Web 2.0 facilitates this relationship.…”

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“…Instead of letters to the editor, which were a historical means of expressing one's viewpoint on a public scale (Moe 2010), individuals can now write their own blogs, post their opinions on twitter, or comment on individual news stories. Whereas letters to the editor and other forms of public expression are mediated -an editor makes a decision about what to publish, and in what form -web 2.0 offers a soapbox from which anyone may shout to the world.…”

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“…However, the other side of this situation is that when everyone has a soapbox from which to shout, society may suffer from opinion-overload. Moe (2010) suggests that the result of this is noise, confusion, fragmentation, and ultimately political polarization. The other drawback of web 2.0 is that, in addition to lowering the costs of activist organising, it also lowers the costs of government monitoring.…”

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Protest 2.0: online interactions and Aboriginal activists

Petray

2011

Media, Culture & Society

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Social movements, like every other aspect of life, have become increasingly reliant on the internet for networking, information sharing and coalition building. This is the case even for disadvantaged groups with few resources and less capacity for utilizing computers and the internet. Aboriginal activists in Townsville have been slow to exert their presence on the web, but are gradually becoming savvy in the use of electronic networking in furthering their cause. They rely on listservs, blogs and, more recently, social networking sites to make their struggle known to a wide audience. In addition to the use of Web 2.0 to supplement ‘offline’ activism, there is a new form of ‘virtual’ activism emerging. The rise in ‘push-button activism’ increases the opportunities for everyday engagement with the state by social movement participants. However, it also changes the notion of participation as marches and demonstrations give way to electronic petitions and Facebook fan pages.

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Everyone a pamphleteer? Reconsidering comparisons of mediated public participation in the print age and the digital era

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere: Methodological Challenges in Internationalizing Internet Research

Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere: Methodological Challenges in Internationalizing Internet Research

Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies

Protest 2.0: online interactions and Aboriginal activists

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