Circuits of shock and bunk : testing citizenship in the Dutch blogosphere
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Publication Date
7-1-2014
Volume
17
Issue
4
First Page
347
Last Page
362
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Keywords
blog theory, Dutch-speaking blogosphere, hate speech, internet and nationalism, Islam and media, migrant media, network culture, participatory media
Abstract
Theorists of blog practices such as Jodi Dean argue that the enunciative regimes of the blogosphere work toward the decline of symbolic efficiency and they often do not, as (counter)public-sphere approaches have it, involve political will, identity and community. However, in order not to universalize the logics of networked communication and their effects, I argue that shock, slur and parody, however nonsensical and trite, should be understood in terms of complex and contradictory relations to institutions, antagonisms and distributions of power extending beyond the blogosphere. By comparing and contrasting three Dutch-speaking blogs each of which mobilizes enunciative regimes to different effects, this article explores the ways in which the blogosphere’s enunciative regimes alternate between ‘making sense’ and generating symbolic inefficiency; between performances of coherent will/identity and subversions of social stratifications and recognized positions of authority. It further maps the political possibilities within this contextually articulated ‘network culture’ in relation to struggles over representativeness, citizenship and belonging.
DOI
10.1177/1367877913501241
Print ISSN
13678779
E-ISSN
1460356X
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Hoyng, R. (2014). Circuits of shock and bunk: Testing citizenship in the Dutch blogosphere. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(4), 347-362. doi: 10.1177/1367877913501241