posted on 2015-09-15, 09:55authored byAthina Karatzogianni
The WikiLeaks revelations in my view became the symbol of the mainstreaming and
popularization of digital activism in the public sphere and this is why I view this the
start of a fourth phase in digital activism.
WikiLeaks was in a sense a continuity
for
o
nline collaborative communities, such as the FLOSS move
ment,
as was explained in
the first chapter
.
I started thinking about how affect theory could contribute to the
study of the first reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations when I was preparing a
chapter
for the edited volume we published with Adi Kunstman in 2012. I am reusing
material from that chapter here (Karatzogianni, 2012). By using affect theory, which I
explain in
-
depth in a theoretical section chapter four (4.4 The Affect problematique), I
sough
t to enrich cyberconflict theory beyond the identity, media representations,
discourse, conflict analysis and resource mobilization elements I utilized in previous
studies. [Opening paragraph]
History
Citation
Karatzogianni, A, The Fourth Phase: 2010-2014 Digital Activism Invades Mainstream Politics, 'Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014 The Rise and Spread of Hacktivism and Cyberconflict', Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 2015, pp. 53-94
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/Department of Media and Communication
The author has chosen to make this chapter Open Access following a mandatory 36-month embargo period. The full (permanently embargoed) book record can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/2381/32191