2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Technologies of Self-Mediation: Affordances and Constraints of Social Media for Protest Movements
verfasst von : Bart Cammaerts
Erschienen in: Civic Engagement and Social Media
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Despite the many critiques (Cammaerts, 2008), it also has to be acknowledged that, in line with some of the more optimistic accounts, social media and so-called Web 2.0 applications have played both an instrumental and a constitutive role for activists worldwide in their efforts to disseminate social movement discourses, to mobilize for direct actions online as well as offline, to coordinate direct action, and to self-mediate acts of resistance potentially leading to movement spill-overs. In this chapter I seek to provide a conceptual framework to make sense of the roles that social media play for protest movements and the interplay between affordances and constraints inherent to social media. The affordances, I will argue, map onto what I call a set of self-mediation logics, which in turn correspond to Foucault’s Stoic technologies of the self: disclosure, examination, and remembrance.