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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-
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Deliberation or Updating? : The Case of Southern Stockholm Activists Online
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 12<sup>th</sup> European Conference on eGovernment. - Reading : ACI Academic Conferences International. - 9781908272416 - 9781908272423 ; , s. 691-697
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on a (n)ethnographic inspired study of middle class activists in southern Stockholm, the aim is to understand contemporary political action and to discuss changing practices of participation in digital and late modernity. More specifically this paper addresses the Internet and its promise of deliberation. However instead of echoing techno-deterministic and optimist accounts of the Internet and online social networking affording a digital public sphere where deliberation can flourish, this paper argues that it is more accurate to understand the practices among the activists in southern Stockholm as updating. Updating is described here as a two-way practice,to be updated what is happening in your social networks as well as updating your social networks what is happening.These practices of updating are understood in light of late modern theories of reflexivity, identity negotiation and maintenance, practices that arguably are heightened in digital and networked societies. Hence to avoid determinism without resorting to the idea of technology as neutral, the paper is based in atechno-social dialectical understanding of our time as digital late modernity.The paper will end with a brief discussion of the implications of updating on political participation in digital late modernity. Even though not deliberation, practices of updating has consequences for participation and political action that perhaps could be considered positive and encouraging for democratic tradition in general.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-
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What Kind of Cultural Citizenship? : Dissent and Antagonism when Discussing Politics in an Online Gay Community.
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Ingår i: <em>Proceedings of the 13<sup>th</sup> European Conference on eGovernment</em>.. - Reading : ACI Academic Conferences International. - 9781909507241 ; , s. 674-680
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Framed in ideas of cultural citizenship and acknowledging the importance of popular cultural sitesfor political participation, this short paper attends to a study of political discussions in the Swedish LGTBcommunity Qruiser. The research is netnographic through online interviews, participant observations and content analyses. Preliminary results suggest an atmosphere that is rather geared towards conflict anddissent between participants than towards deliberation, opinion formation and consensus. The paper willtherefore discuss the results in light of Mouffe's (2005) normative lens of agonism and radical democracy.
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- Strand, Cecilia, 1972-, et al.
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Towards a Situated Understanding of Vulnerability : An Analysis of Ugandan LGBT plus Exposure to Hate Crimes in Digital Spaces
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Homosexuality. - : Routledge. - 0091-8369 .- 1540-3602. ; 70:12, s. 2806-2827
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study maps Uganda LGBT+ experiences of online hate crime and analyzes how preexisting vulnerability morph in digital spaces. Based on field notes, workshop material, and interviews with 13 LGBT+ individuals, the study finds that digital presences in contexts where users are vulnerable due to state-sanctioned discrimination and social exclusion, digital arenas exacerbate users' vulnerability to hate crimes through their digital footprints. The longing for community and intimacy, together with in some cases an unfamiliarity with how digital media can be misused, appear to facilitate both the ideologically driven perpetrators hunting LGBT+, and Crime passionnel, where an (ex)partner miscalculates the implications of publishing private material. This study thus illustrates how digital spaces are not safe(r) spaces, where LGBT+ are free to playfully explore sexual orientation and gender non-conformity, away from society's abhorring gaze. Furthermore, contrary to what could be expected, LGBT+ individuals' vulnerability was most often not the result of an outside intruder hunting LGBT+ online. The article reiterates the importance of a situated approach, acknowledging the environmental influences when studying and addressing LGBT+ vulnerabilities in digital spaces.
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- Strand, Cecilia, 1972-, et al.
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Western funding and its consequences for the Ugandan LGBT+ rights struggle : negotiating community dynamics and activism during Pride 2022
- 2023
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Ingår i: Global LGBTQ Activism. - London : Routledge. - 9781032498577 - 9781032498560 - 9781003395805 ; , s. 43-62
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Uganda gained international notoriety in 2009 for introducing one of the world’s harshest bills proposing the death penalty for homosexuality. Against the backdrop that the Ugandan LGBT+ community has enjoyed moral and financial support from international partners for more than a decade, this chapter examines and discusses the potential unintentional consequences of external and prolonged support of LGBT+ activism. Furthermore, unintended and unintentional consequences are likely to have fluctuated over time depending on domestic politics and international priorities. Through historical sources, the first part of the chapter traces the emergence of organized resistance against state-sanctioned homophobia in Uganda, as well as the entrance of international support to the community. The gala provided examples of how international funding has unintended consequences and potentially distorts intra-community relations. It is, however, also important to highlight that despite prolonged and pronounced donor dependency, Pride 2022 signaled a significant degree of community agency.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-, et al.
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The Promise of Double Living. Understanding Young People with Same-Sex Desires in Contemporary Kampala
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Homosexuality. - : Routledge. - 0091-8369 .- 1540-3602. ; 71:8, s. 2010-2029
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ugandan urban same-sex desiring individuals frequently encounter and navigate competing understandings of sexuality and sexual identity. Western essentialist understanding of sexual identity introduced by international development partners and transnational LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transsexual) activism, as well as media, offer an alternative to Ugandan non-essentialist and fluid subject positions. This article seeks to understand how young individuals with same-sex -desires in Kampala navigate tensions between Western and local understandings concerning sexuality. We have interviewed 24 young individuals with same-sex desires (unaffiliated and individuals working in LGBT+ organizations) and asked how they approach their sexuality and experiences living with same-sex desires in contemporary Kampala. The results reveal how interview participants engaged in a complex navigation between local community expectations, their own same-sex desires, and embeddedness in a global LGBT+ culture. Although the participants engaged in what Westerners would label as a “double life,” the article problematizes the prescriptive norms of authenticity and “coming out.” The conclusion is that the fluid vs essentialist dichotomy is too simplistic to be helpful when trying to understand the lives and aspirations of young people with same-sex desires.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-, et al.
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The Emergence of a New Media Logic : A Theoretical Approach
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we argue that online social media platforms operate with a decidedly different logic than traditional mass media. This has led to different ways of producing content, distributing information and the way recipients use media. The changes in the media and communication landscape are embedded in a larger societal transformation context of fragmentation, individualization and reflexivity, a late modern context that sustains the modus operandi of social media platforms. By discussing the differences between traditional mass media and social media platforms, we carve out the central elements of a new network media logic - that is, the inherent rules of the game on social media platforms - and this logic's consequences for political communication and political actors.
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