Conference paper
Politics and ideology or identity and affect
AoIR: Selected Papers of Internet Research, Vol.2023, pp.5-8
Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2023 (Philadelphia, United States, 18-Oct-2023 - 23-Oct-2023)
Association of Internet Researchers
2023
Abstract
This paper seeks to explore how the continuum or the conditions in which passionate political participation and debate is a form of fandom. With the ubiquitousness of digital
life, a life where pop culture exists in the same space as politics, and where fandom, meme culture, and public debate co-exist on platforms and even in the same comment
threads, we examine the aforementioned continuum and, through two examples from the global north and global south, argue that ideology and politics now coexist with
identity and affect, and that online political debate is motivated by affect in a way that mirrors what is well established as modes of communication within fandom/s.
Details
- Title
- Politics and ideology or identity and affect
- Authors
- Sebastian Svegaard (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyRenee Barnes (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Engage Research Lab
- Publication details
- AoIR: Selected Papers of Internet Research, Vol.2023, pp.5-8
- Conference details
- Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2023 (Philadelphia, United States, 18-Oct-2023 - 23-Oct-2023)
- Publisher
- Association of Internet Researchers
- DOI
- 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13533
- ISSN
- 2162-3317
- Organisation Unit
- Engage Research Lab; School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991009398902621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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