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Hacktivism and Habermas: Online Protest as Neo-Habermasian Counterpublicity ...
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This thesis both draws from and contributes to the ongoing project of critiquing and reconstructing the theory of the public sphere; an undertaking that has been characterised as both valuable and necessary by Fraser (2005: 2) and many others. The subsection of theory variously described as ‘postmodern’, ‘radical’, or ‘agonistic’ informs an intensive practical and theoretical critique of the pre- and post-‘linguistic turn’ iterations of the Habermasian ideal, before culminating in the articulation of a concise and operationalisable ‘neo-Habermasian’ public sphere ideal. This revised model retains the Habermasian public sphere as its core, but expands and sensitizes it, moving away from normative preoccupations with decision-making in order to effectively comprehend issues of power and difference, and to allow publicness “to navigate through wider and wilder territory” (Ryan, 1992: 286). This theoretical framework is then mobilised through a critical discourse analytical approach, exploring three cases of ...
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Keyword:
activism; counterpublic; critical discourse analysis; democracy; digital; digital rights; feminist; hackers; hacking; hacktivism; hactivism; human rights; internet; Jurgen Habermas; Nancy Fraser; protest; public sphere; radical
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URL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5377
https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/4788
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The Discursive Construction of ‘Children’ and ‘Rights’ in Irish Early Childhood Policy
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In: Conference Papers (2010)
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Hacktivism and Habermas: Online Protest as Neo-Habermasian Counterpublicity
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Radio FreeDom : un processus de coproduction de l’information
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In: Communication & langages, N 165, 3, 2010-09-01, pp.47-60 (2010)
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