[Air-L] Subaltern counter publics online?

Mathieu ONeil mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au
Mon Jan 31 14:31:23 PST 2011


For a good theoretical overview of issues around online counter-publics you might be interested in this collection:

Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera (eds) Radical Democracy and the Internet: Interrogating Theory and Practice (2007) Palgrave.
cheers,
Mathieu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mukherjee, Ishani" <imukhe2 at uic.edu>
Date: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:02 pm
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Subaltern counter publics online?
To: "Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)" <K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl>
Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org

> Hi Koen,
> 
> For my dissertation, I am currently looking at how ethno-cultural
> narratives are created in online communities (spec. blogs that discuss
> domestic violence within the South Asian dispora in the US), 
> from the
> perspectives of ethnic-community empowerment and identity 
> negotiation.  I
> haven't looked at Nancy Fraser's work yet, but I have come 
> across research
> that reworks the public/private debate, esp. in the context of 
> creatingminority counter-publics online, often working from 
> within the dominant
> discursive spaces.
> 
> You can perhaps refer to Rohit Chopra's work, "Global primordialities:
> virtual identity politics in online Hindutva and online Dalit 
> discourse,"which looks at the intersection of technology and 
> culture in  online
> representations (community websites) of the elite/dominant Hindu
> nationalist community and the subaltern Dalit community (New 
> Media &
> Society, 2006, vol. 8/2, pp. 187-206).
> 
> You can also try: Mallapragada, M. (2006). Home, Homeland, Homepage:
> Belonging and the Indian-American web. New Media and Society, 
> 8(2), pp.
> 207-227.
> She talks about how online interactions/communities of ethnic 
> minoritiesoften ruptures the public/private, gender-race 
> divide/politics, and
> creates not only geo-political, but also rhetorical 
> transgressions and
> ambivalence.
> 
> I hope these help and prove interesting for your purposes.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 




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