The Use of Social Media to Subvert the Course of Justice

Occupying the Olympic

Games

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dominant narratives

access to information

user generated content

multi-platform experiences

mobile technologies

(Jenkins, 2006)

mode of production/distribution

forms of content

aesthetic quality

interaction with audiences

(Atton, 2002)

Challenge dominant narratives

Voice to marginal communities

Build networks between groups

(Downing, 2001)

different modes of address

different perspectives

story selection

(Goode, 2009: 1070)

Political positioning

“It is not easy to be both an academic and an activist. The values, the audiences and the constraints are different.

Sitting down to write, you can feel yourself pulled in two different ways. The result is often muddled thinking and murky prose.There is too much ranting for an academic audience, and too much goobledgook for the activists. In

many cases, there is no prose at all, only silence and pages crumbled in the wastebasket or erased on the

screen.” (Neale, 2008 :217)

Occupying the Olympics

Media Intervention

access

identity

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