Stephansen, H. 2019. Conceptualizing a distributed, multi-scalar global public sphere through activist communication practices in the World Social Forum. Global Media and Communication. 15 (3), pp. 345-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766519872777
| Title | Conceptualizing a distributed, multi-scalar global public sphere through activist communication practices in the World Social Forum |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Stephansen, H. |
| Abstract | This article contributes to debate about how to conceptualize the global public sphere. Drawing on media practice theory and ethnographic research on media activism in the World Social Forum, it shows how ‘global publics’ can be constituted through a diverse range of activist communication practices that complicate both conventional hierarchies of scale and contemporary theorizations of publics as personalized networks. It develops an understanding of the global public sphere as an emergent formation made up of multiple, interlinked publics at different scales and emphasizes the significance of collective communication spaces for actors at the margins of the global network society. |
| Keywords | Global public sphere, World Social Forum, social movements, media activism, place, scale |
| Journal | Global Media and Communication |
| Journal citation | 15 (3), pp. 345-360 |
| ISSN | 1742-7665 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766519872777 |
| Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1742766519872777 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 18 Sep 2019 |
| Published | 31 Dec 2019 |
| Funder | ESRC |