Skip to main content

Activist Reflexivity and Mediated Violence: Putting the Policing of Nuit Debout in Context.

Feigenbaum, A. and McCurdy, P., 2018. Activist Reflexivity and Mediated Violence: Putting the Policing of Nuit Debout in Context. International Journal of Communication, 12, 1887-1907.

Full text available as:

[img]
Preview
PDF
Feigenbaum and McCurdy_Nuit Debout Mediated Violence_IJoC 2018.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives.

275kB

Official URL: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/index

Abstract

To better understand the historical trajectory of the policing of Nuit Debout, in this article we argue that the reflexive relationship between police and protest tactics is heavily mediated by the presence of the press and by the emergence of digital technologies. Our analysis focuses on three sets of reflexive activist practice: (a) challenging media representations—the adaptations and innovations that respond to dominant media framing of police–protester relations; (b) “sousveillance” and police monitoring—the recording and monitoring of police violence and the public education around the police’s use of force; (c) civic forensics and data aggregation—the gathering, analyzing, and collectivizing of citizen-generated data. Although not intended as a taxonomy, these groups of practices are offered as conceptual lenses for critically examining how activists’ tactical repertoires for protesting police adapt and evolve, building on each other to challenge the representational, legal, and material dimensions of state power as it manifests in police–protester relations.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1932-8036
Uncontrolled Keywords:policing; social movements; riot control; protest; Nuit Debout
Group:Faculty of Media & Communication
ID Code:30799
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:31 May 2018 13:05
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:11

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

More statistics for this item...
Repository Staff Only -