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- Askanius, Tina, et al.
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Extreme-right responses to the European economic crisis in Denmark and Sweden : the discursive construction of scape-goats and lodestars
- 2015
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In: Javnost. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1318-3222 .- 1854-8377. ; 22:1, s. 55-72
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines extreme-right online media as a site of discursive struggle over definitions of the causes, consequences and remedies of the European economic crisis. The authors focus on two Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Sweden, which have seen a rise in extreme-right activities across different arenas and in different media in the turbulent years since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. Drawing on a discourse theoretical framework that builds on the work of Laclau and Mouffe (1985), the authors examine how the currently most active and visible extreme-right groups in these two countries understand and respond to the crisis as an opportunity to fuel anti-immigration discourses and prey on sentiments of instability and insecurity in the broader population, using online media to “involve members and supporters in the discursive construction of racism” (Atton 2006, 573). The analysis demonstrates how these groups look to Greece, as the “crisis epicentre”, for culturalist explanations for the Eurozone crisis and to the rise there of Golden Dawn as an inspiration for future mobilisations in Nordic and pan-European coalitions.
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- Carpentier, Nico, 1969-, et al.
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Discourse-theoretical perspectives on class, populism and participation : An interview with Nico Carpentier
- 2020
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In: Communications. Media. Design. - 2542-1395. ; :1, s. 201-221
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- An interview with Nico Carpentier, that took place in June 2019, at the Garage Institute of Moscow, during Carpentier’s visit to HSE-NRU. The interview starts with a series of issues related to the ontology of discourse theory, and the role of class in discourse theory. This is then connected with the issue of populism, which has been prominent in discourse-theory-related research. In a second part, the role of participation, in particular in the media, is discussed, with attention for recent positive developments, connected to the logics of decentralization. Part of the argument here is that participation has a normative dimension. The discussion then returns to discourse theory, with discussions on the limits of contingency, the translation of discourse theory into methodology, and the resistance against post-structuralist theory.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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Accumulation, control and contingency; a critical review of intellectual property rights' "piracy"
- 2011
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In: First Monday. - 1396-0466. ; 16:12-5, s. 1-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article problematizes piracy a) as a hegemonic discourse and technology of control, aiming to securitize late capitalist accumulation; b) as a practice developed by the multitudes that is compatible to post–Fordist mode of production and to neoliberal norms; and, c) as resistance to dominant mode of late capitalist production, distribution and consumption of immaterial goods. The article addresses and criticizes capitalism’s ‘organic’ and strategic colonization of fundamental social commons, such as culture, intellectual goods, as well as human creativity and communication, by looking at the ideological, institutional and material processes that reproduce the capitalist ‘machine’. This paper concludes by considering the possibility of overcoming the capitalist approach to commons, through the politicization of IPR as well as through the connection of the problem they pose to broader social perspectives, confronting capitalism — in its post political disguises — politically.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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'Amateur Creation and Entrepreneurialism: A Critical Study of Artistic Production in Post-Fordist Structures
- 2012
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In: TripleC. - 1726-670X. ; 10:1, s. 1-11
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on an interview with a hip-hop artist from Eastern Poland, this article critically assesses amateur art pro-duction proliferating throughout the globe today through individuals’ creative usages of new ICTs and new media affordances. The post-Fordist material and ideological context of contemporary social life is the main focus point of the article’s critique. Scarcity, dispossession, and entrepreneurship are the main analytical concepts used to develop a critical analysis and explanation of mainstream realities of amateur artistic production today. Within a context defined by precarious work conditions and prospects, material scarcity, and consumerist aspirations, media and technological potentialities are strategically used by the amateur artist-entrepreneur a) as resources where creativity is put to work for potential socio-economic elevation and inclusion in the global industrial artistic scene (in the case of private ICT), b) as “free” resources, appropriated for entrepreneurial aspirations (in the case of “free“ digital material circulating online, particularly through peer to peer networks), c) as channels for self promotion and networking (in the case of web 2.0 structures). What is often less apparent to the amateur artists, though, concerns the exploitative capacities of corporate Internet to dispossess amateur work and online social relations for the purposes of capital accumulation and reproduction. Unless critiqued, “free culture” -generated by new ICTs and new media- is assimilated by the material and ideological power of late capitalism and is “put to work” for the (re)production of late capitalism. The article concludes by suggesting the critical challenging of the mainstream artistic identity and the critical use and appropriation of new media/ICT’s potentialities.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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Civic culture and informal media uses: Poles and Greeks discussing “free culture”
- 2012
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In: Revista Romana de Jurnalism Si Comunicare. - 1842-256X. ; 1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article begins from critical accounts addressing the crisis of politics and citizenship today, to study the civic potential that several media and social scholars view in informal practices that include the usage of new media and information and communication technologies. On one hand, new media and ICT are noted to empower individual users and groups, to provide spaces of voice and debate and furthermore, to allow possibilities of individual and collective creativity to grow. Such possibilities are noted to be democratic as they provide individuals and social groups possibilities for inclusion and participation, irrespectively of social or ethnic background. On the other hand, critical political economy literature connects such developments to the processes of commodification and accumulation that characterize late capitalist economy, which has little to do with democratic politics. The article discusses the two arguments while looking at the concrete realities of new media/ICT uses, through empirical research with interviews of heavy users of new media/ICT structures, in two different EU countries, Greece and Poland. Research and analysis is organized according to Dahlgren’s civic circuit model. The analysis shows that new media and ICT’s civic and pre-political potential is contingent to the dynamic nature of social contexts and cannot be perceived in defacto terms.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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Crisis, austerity and opposition in mainstream media discourses of Greece
- 2014
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In: Critical Discourse Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1740-5904 .- 1740-5912. ; 11:3, s. 305-321
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article analyzes neoliberal articulations of the economic crisis in Greece, as they appear at the Ekathimerini daily. Neoliberalism is primarily understood as the ideology organizing the political strategies of late capitalist production. The analysis focuses on the ways the capitalist crisis is presented in the context of Greece, as well as the ways that socio-political opposition to neoliberal reforms are addressed. Ekathimerini reproduces the hegemonic explanations of the crisis that view the crisis as a national and moral problem rather than a global and systemic one. The analysis draws concepts from both discourse theory and critical theory. Discourse theory analyzes the neoliberal discourse organizing the political interventions for the reproduction of capitalism in the crisis-context, while political economy critiques the materiality of the capitalist process, which itself is based on discourses and political interventions. The article concludes that Ekathimerini’s crisis-coverage contributes to the form of social engineering organized by neoliberal policies in Greece, in order to produce the political and social norms for a post-crisis configuration of capitalism.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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Discourses of counter-Islamic-threat mobilization in post 9/11 documentaries
- 2012
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In: Journal of Language and Politics. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1569-9862 .- 1569-2159. ; 11:3, s. 405-426
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article critically studies documentaries focusing on the "Islamic terrorist threat", produced in the US and in Western Europe. The particular films relate to the discourses of the growing far right political movements in liberal democracies. The article analyzes the communicational tactics deployed by the filmmakers for counter-terrorist mobilization of "Westerners". The films' producers objectify the terrorist threat as exceptional and ontological, in order to reconfigure the identity of the "West". The analysis focuses on representations of the West's threatening Other through the reflexive use of critical discourse analysis and post structuralist, discourse theory. Counter-threat strategies, varying from warfare to biopolitical control, are articulated as social demands and as individualized tasks of inclusion to the ideological space of the West and the sovereign space of western nation states. The critical study of the particular documentaries aims at highlighting the regressive and character of the passionate discourses of far right media, in relation to the political crisis that liberal democracies across the world are facing.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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Media and the economic crisis of the EU: the “culturalization” of a systemic crisis and Bild-Zeitung's framing of Greece
- 2012
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In: TripleC. - 1726-670X. ; 10:2, s. 646-671
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article critically studies the hegemonic discursive construction of the EU’s current (2012) economic crisis, as it is articulated by political and economic elites and by mass media. The study focuses on the political economy of the particular crisis and through the critical concept of reification, the study emphasizes the hegemonic naturalization of the economic crisis by the “free market” economistic ideology. The article problematizes the positioning of Greece as the “crisis epicentre” in Europe, understanding Greece as a scapegoat and as a laboratory where political strategies of capitalist restructuring of the EU are performed. Through the frame analysis of Bild-zeitung’s headlines on the coverage of crisis-struck Greece, the article discusses a) the “culturalization” of the crisis and the diversion from a structural public debate on the global economic crisis b) the disciplinary function of crisis’ publicity, related to social control and the production of new, neoliberal social subjectivities c) the alienating effect of the culturalist crisis discourses to transnational publics, resulting to the misrecognition of the ideological and structural reasons of the given crisis, the misrecognition of the effects of the crisis and crisis-politics in people’s lives, the misrecognition of popular socio-political struggles in countries worse struck by crisis politics, and the eclipse of transnational solidarity and identification to the common issues that European people in particular are facing.
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- Mylonas, Yiannis
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'Piracy Culture in Greece: Local Realities and Civic Potentials
- 2012
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In: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 6, s. 710-734
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Departing from a critical perspective on intellectual property rights, this article investigates the popular phenomenon of free online file-sharing beyond its hegemonic framing as piracy. The article focuses on the civic potentials entailed in free and participatory culture of new media and ICT. A “civic” focus, in the context of free sharing, aims at assessing the potential of a democratic culture that scholars (Castells, 2009; Dahlgren, 2009) distinguish to be developing through new media and new ICT uses in the everyday life and communication practices of different people worldwide. Empirical research draws on users’ ideas, practices, and experiences of new ICT and file-sharing, contextualized in the local experience of Greece. The local example aims at foregrounding particularistic, sociocultural variants defining cultural practices, while also addressing the controversies of global IP policies. The analysis shows that civic elements may be developed through P2P practices, but they rely on material social experiences, ideological issues, events, and social and communicative relations that are “external” to the realities developing through technologies and digital networks.
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