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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mirroring the videos of Anonymous
T2 - cloud activism, living networks, and political mimesis
AU - Fish, Adam Richard
PY - 2016/1/18
Y1 - 2016/1/18
N2 - Mirrors describe the multiplication of data across a network. In this article, I examine the politics of mirroring as practiced on videos by the hacktivist network Anonymous. Mirrors are designed to retain visibility on social media platforms and motivate viewers towards activism. They emerge from a particular social structure and propagate a specific symbolic system. Furthermore, mirrors are not exact replicas nor postmodern representations. Rather, mirroring maps a contestation over visibility that entangles both cloud activists and platform firms.
AB - Mirrors describe the multiplication of data across a network. In this article, I examine the politics of mirroring as practiced on videos by the hacktivist network Anonymous. Mirrors are designed to retain visibility on social media platforms and motivate viewers towards activism. They emerge from a particular social structure and propagate a specific symbolic system. Furthermore, mirrors are not exact replicas nor postmodern representations. Rather, mirroring maps a contestation over visibility that entangles both cloud activists and platform firms.
KW - media
KW - activism
KW - social media
U2 - 10.15307/fcj.26.191.2015
DO - 10.15307/fcj.26.191.2015
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 85
EP - 107
JO - The Fibreculture Journal
JF - The Fibreculture Journal
SN - 1449-1443
IS - 191
M1 - FCJ-191
ER -