scholarly journals Political Participation and Power Relations in Egypt: The Scope of Newspapers and Social Network Sites

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Mostafa Shehata
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media

The political use of media in Egypt post-2011 revolution brought about drastic transformations in political activism and power structures. In the context of communication power theory, this article investigates the effects of newspapers and social network sites on political participation and political power relations. The research employed a mixed methodology, comprised of a survey of 527 Egyptian youth and semi-structured interviews of 12 political activists and journalists. The results showed a significant relationship between reading newspapers and youth’s political participation, but not between using social network sites and political participation. In addition, newspapers and social network sites were platforms for a series of conflicts and coalitions that emerged between pro- and anti-revolution actors. Despite the importance of social network sites as key tools for informing and mobilizing the public, they eventually failed to empower new political actors, and this was because old actors, supported by newspapers and other mainstream media, managed to obstruct the new actors’ progress.

scholarly journals The Terror Raids: An analysis of the criminalisation of green activism in Aotearoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Megan Paish
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
State Agents ◽  
Democratic Freedom

<p>The objective of this thesis is to identify how criminalisation by mainstream media, police, politicians, ‘the public’ and court processes affected green activists, with specific reference to the Terror Raids of October 2007. Drawing on media analysis - covering news articles from 15 October 2007 to 15 November 2007, and 1 January 2017 to 31 July 2018 - and semi-structured interviews with eight participants (all green activists, two of whom were arrested in the Terror Raids), this research explores the issues of colonisation, activism, criminalisation, and resistance to criminalisation in detail.   The research concludes that state agents and mainstream media contributed to a ‘blanket criminalisation’ of activists in the Terror Raids and that this criminalisation had significantly detrimental effects on the activists, whānau , and wider groups. This intense criminalisation was produced as a result of activists being labelled as ‘terrorists’. As a result, the Raids represented an evolution in the criminalisation of green activists in Aotearoa - from inconsistent forms of criminalisation (in which previous criminalising narratives had been joined by narratives relating to democratic freedom and environmental justice) to the application of intense criminalisation by the state and mainstream media of all activists in the Raids. This research demonstrates, therefore, the power of labelling. However, this thesis also identifies the power of green activism and the resilience of campaigners to this intense criminalisation. It emphasises that resistance can survive even when confronted by intense criminalisation and state violence. It concludes by emphasising the significant contributions green activists make to the environmental well-being of Aotearoa and to the international environmental justice movement.</p>

scholarly journals Democratization, Social Renegotiations and the Hegemony of the Rey Bouba Lamidate over the Population of Slavish Mboum Origin in Question in the District of Touboro (North Cameroon)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Assana
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Elites

This article analyzes the effects of democratization on power relations between the Rey-Bouba lamidate and the population of slavish Mboum origin in the district of Touboro (North Cameroon). The analysis of the challenges of its political participation (conventional and unconventional) leads to the study of its political activism in a context of diversification of the partisan offer. It also involves entering the profiles of political elites, from their rank and their associative movement. Based on the theory of coloniality of power and collected empirical data, democratization seems to be a favorable framework for social renegotiations between the lamidate of Rey-bouba and the population of the slavish Mboum origin.

scholarly journals Television and the Public Sphere:  Relationships of Power and Resistance in Contemporary  New Zealand Television

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Frances Cook
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Normative Power ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
The Public Sphere

<p>This thesis considers New Zealand television’s public sphere role, by analysing three television programmes in terms of how they enable the exercise of power or resistance. The programmes 7 Days, Campbell Live, and Shortland Street were used as case studies of typical public sphere spaces that are available to the New Zealand public. These programmes were analysed in terms of Foucault’s concepts of power and resistance as active exercises that are present in all interrelations. The research found that the programmes were sites of both the exercising of power and the possibility of resistance, as they each worked to circulate competing discourses that subjects could take up to reinforce existing power structures or to resist the exercise of power upon them. Despite this conflicted nature, each programme was found to circulate these competing discourses in a manner that accommodated critical positions and discourses, as well as reinscribing normative power relations.</p>

Youth and Online Social Networking

2011 ◽  
pp. 17-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malene Charlotte Larsen ◽  
Thomas Ryberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Internet Safety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Media Discourses

Often, young people do not have a voice in the public debate on internet safety and online social networking, but as this chapter will demonstrate that does not mean they do not have an opinion. Based on responses from 2400 Danish adolescents to an open-ended questionnaire, the authors discuss their accounts of good and bad experiences with social network sites. Furthermore, they analyse how youth (aged 12 to 18) position themselves as users of social network sites both in relation to very concrete and local experiences from their everyday life, and in relation to public media discourses. They discuss how they portray themselves as ‘responsible young people’ by distancing themselves from the public or “grown up” discourses represented by e.g. their parents or the news media.

scholarly journals Political “Postwriting” on Facebook: Public Perceptions About Parliamentarians’ (Un)Real SNS Involvement

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511988169
Author(s):  
Chen Sabag Ben-Porat ◽  
Sam Lehman-Wilzig
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Public Opinion Poll ◽  
Ethical Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Use Patterns

Theoretical research on political communication between MPs and the public has focused on the role, activities, and perceptions of the MPs themselves without noting the existence of an intermediate layer: parliamentary assistants (PAs). This study attempts to investigate how the public perceives, practically and ethically, the (non)involvement of MPs, that is, reliance on PAs for SNSs (social network sites) communication with the public and to fill out the theoretical void in the discourse process. Questionnaires were sent to all 120 members of the 20th Israeli Knesset (MKs), with 44 responding. We examined the extent of their involvement and the MKs’ use patterns of Facebook, creating a model of four MK involvement levels. The idea was to check the extent of PAs’ authoring posts on behalf of MKs, what we call “Postwriting” (= post ghostwriting) in the MK’s name (or giving the impression that the MKs had themselves posted). Then we conducted a public opinion poll ( N = 505) in order to discern what the public thought about the nature of its relationship with MKs on Facebook, compared to the findings that emerged from the model of the MKs’ involvement in actual practice. The two parts of the study also enabled us to investigate the ethical perceptions and implications arising from the study.

Youth and Online Social Networking

2013 ◽  
pp. 1145-1168
Author(s):  
Malene Charlotte Larsen ◽  
Thomas Ryberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Internet Safety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Media Discourses

Often, young people do not have a voice in the public debate on internet safety and online social networking, but as this chapter will demonstrate that does not mean they do not have an opinion. Based on responses from 2400 Danish adolescents to an open-ended questionnaire, the authors discuss their accounts of good and bad experiences with social network sites. Furthermore, they analyse how youth (aged 12 to 18) position themselves as users of social network sites both in relation to very concrete and local experiences from their everyday life, and in relation to public media discourses. They discuss how they portray themselves as ‘responsible young people’ by distancing themselves from the public or “grown up” discourses represented by e.g. their parents or the news media.

scholarly journals Pitfall to Peace: FARC’s Political Participation and Mass Support for Peace Talks in Colombia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-344
Author(s):  
Ryan E. Carlin ◽  
Gregory J. Love ◽  
Jennifer L. McCoy ◽  
Jelena Subotić
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Vignette Experiment

Transforming armed groups into legitimate political actors is often considered an ideal way to settle armed internal conflicts. In democracies, the efficacy of such approaches depends on the public legitimacy that the citizenry grants them. How does the prospect of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC’s) political participation influence citizens’ support for the peace process? This study addresses this question by triangulating evidence from three separate studies: (1) regression analysis using face-to-face nationally representative survey data, as well as (2) a vignette experiment and (3) a conjoint analysis, both conducted online with national samples of Colombians. Though methodologically distinct, each analysis converges on a singular conclusion: mass support for the integration of ex-FARC guerrillas into democratic politics damaged support for negotiated peace, often to similar or greater degrees than mass support for transitional justice mechanisms. We suspect this reflects citizens’ fear of undermining democratic representation, the legitimacy of democratic institutions, and electoral integrity.

scholarly journals Television and the Public Sphere:  Relationships of Power and Resistance in Contemporary  New Zealand Television

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Frances Cook
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Normative Power ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
The Public Sphere

<p>This thesis considers New Zealand television’s public sphere role, by analysing three television programmes in terms of how they enable the exercise of power or resistance. The programmes 7 Days, Campbell Live, and Shortland Street were used as case studies of typical public sphere spaces that are available to the New Zealand public. These programmes were analysed in terms of Foucault’s concepts of power and resistance as active exercises that are present in all interrelations. The research found that the programmes were sites of both the exercising of power and the possibility of resistance, as they each worked to circulate competing discourses that subjects could take up to reinforce existing power structures or to resist the exercise of power upon them. Despite this conflicted nature, each programme was found to circulate these competing discourses in a manner that accommodated critical positions and discourses, as well as reinscribing normative power relations.</p>

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