Disaffiliation and belonging: twitter and its agonistic publics
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI
Author/s Michael Higgins, Angela Smith
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/2
Language Italian Pages 13 P. 77-89 File size 168 KB
DOI 10.3280/SP2014-002005
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This article looks at forms of political and public engagement to emerge in Web 2.0. Focusing on the platform Twitter, the article looks at both antagonistic and agonistic types of political engagement. It discusses Twitter’s capacity for direct contact with main political party leaders as part of an antagonistic public discourse, geared towards creative expressions of individualised disaffiliation. However, in interventions around @EverydaySexism, the article finds collectivising practices more in keeping with an agonistic public discourse based upon involvement and the tactical use of irony and humour. While showing that the platform provides for new forms of antagonistic engagement with political elites, the article therefore offers support for the view that Web 2.0 gives rise to new and shifting formations of non-institutionally-aligned political public.
Keywords: Twitter; Disaffiliation; Agonistic Publics; Political Communication; Public Sphere.
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Michael Higgins, Angela Smith, Disaffiliation and belonging: twitter and its agonistic publics in "SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI" 2/2014, pp 77-89, DOI: 10.3280/SP2014-002005