Shinners, dissos and dissenters: Irish republican media activism since the Good Friday Agreement

Hopkins, Stephen

doi:10.1080/07907184.2020.1800955

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“…Although much has improved in Belfast since the 'bad old days' (Hoey, 2018) of 'The Troubles', it remains in many ways a deeply divided city shaped by its violent past. As noted by Goulding and McCroy (2021), the city is 'divided by walls, divided by ethnicity, and even divided by the river Lagan' (p. 539).…”

Section: Contextualising Post-conflict Belfastmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While political violence is a recurring phenomenon in physical spaces in Belfast, antagonisms have also increasingly moved online (Hoey, 2018). Amid a public bus being set ablaze by petrol bombs and protestors clashing with police during the April 2021 riots, conflicts also proliferated online: digital clashes which included, among other things, internet memes (henceforth: memes) which engaged with the rioting in various ways.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots

Lundqvist

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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This study sheds light upon how memes about rioting in present-day Belfast are read by their audiences. As such, it answers to a distinct research gap in the meme studies literature, which has mostly shied away from in-depth engagements with audiences, favouring instead the intertwined concepts ‘imagined audience’ and the ideological ‘directionality’ of memes. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 19 respondents in Belfast, I develop four themes on how they read memes about political violence. The findings indicate that the concept ‘imagined audience’ is reductive at best, which was evident in this study as interviewees did not blindly follow the ideological ‘directionality’ when reading a meme. Moving beyond this reductive view allowed me to unpack how meme audiences place value in the pop-cultural form of the meme; their take on its ‘imagined author’; how they perceived the meme as a site for identity work, and their emotional engagements with memes.

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Section: Contextualising Post-conflict Belfastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots

Lundqvist

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Paddy Hoey (2018) distinguishes between "dissident" republicans who support continued armed struggle and "dissenting" republicans who reject continued armed struggle but also reject the constitutional politics of Sinn Féin. I focus on four "dissident" organizations: Republican Sinn Féin, the Continuity IRA, Cumann na mBan, and Na Fianna Éireann.…”

Section: The Irish Republican Movementmentioning

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Why “Dissident” Irish Republicans Haven’t Gone Away

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2021

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When considering “terrorists” and “terrorism,” the focus tends to be on violence—the threat of violence, its aftermath, the ideology and belief systems that lead to it, and so forth. Political violence, however, represents only a portion of the repertoire of collective action that is available to “terrorists.” Images from “dissident” Irish Republican events and photo-elicitation interviews with activists who participated in these events show that: (1) the repertoire of “violent” organizations includes nonviolent political activity; and (2) the organizational structures and affective incentives that sustain activism in nonviolent voluntary associations and social movement organizations also sustain activism in organizations that embrace physical force or “terrorism.” In combination, these findings show that “dissident” Irish Republicans are likely to persist into the foreseeable future. More generally, the findings also show that our understanding of “terrorists” and “terrorist organizations” will be enhanced if we focus less on their violent activities and more on their similarities with nonviolent activists and organizations.

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Shinners, dissos and dissenters: Irish republican media activism since the Good Friday Agreement

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A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots

A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots

Why “Dissident” Irish Republicans Haven’t Gone Away

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