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Social Mobilization in the Net Space: Re-Constructed Communication, Identity and Power
- Author(s):
- CECILIA FE L STA MARIA-ABALOS
- Editor(s):
- Jyotirmaya Patnaik (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanists, Electronic Literature, Information Ecosystems
- Subject(s):
- Communication, Social media, Digital communications, Journalism, Digital media, Power (Social sciences)
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Online social mobilization, net space, reconstruction, Digital communication, New media, Power
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/5ccw-3d62
- Abstract:
- The internet as a communication platform for netizens has become the hybrid space for social mobilization to forward political agenda. A take-off from Manuel Castells’ hypotheses on power and counter-power in the network society, this paper is a reading of “Boycott SM Baguio” Facebook Group Page as a space and site for social mobilization. Using textual analysis as a method, reading of the selected posts revealed that the spatial conditions present in the net space effected the reconstruction of identity, group and public and re-shaped the communication process. Elaborating on these two main points elicited a different kind of social mobilization located in the online space that emerged discourses on power, counter-power, political legitimacy and exacerbated questions on sustainability.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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