Repression, resistance and lifestyle: charting (dis)connection and activism in times of accelerated capitalism

Kaun, Anne and Trere, Emiliano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2496-4571 2020. Repression, resistance and lifestyle: charting (dis)connection and activism in times of accelerated capitalism. Social Movement Studies 19 (5-6) , pp. 697-715. 10.1080/14742837.2018.1555752

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Abstract

Studying the nexus of media and social movements is a growing subfield in both media and social movement studies. Although there is an increasing number of studies that criticize the overemphasis of the importance of media technologies for social movements, questions of non-use, technology push-back and media refusal as explicit political practice have received comparatively little attention. The article charts a typology of digital disconnection as political practice and site of struggle bringing emerging literatures on disconnection, i.e. forms of media technology non-use to the field of social movement studies and studies of civic engagement. Based on a theoretical matrix combining questions of power, collectivity and temporality, we distinguish between digital disconnection as repression, digital disconnection as resistance and digital disconnection as performance and life-style politics. The article discusses the three types of digital disconnection using current examples of protest and social movements that engage with practices of disconnection.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN:	1474-2837
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 November 2018
Date of Acceptance:	6 November 2018
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 00:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/116704

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