Soft power's dark side
In: Journal of political power, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 437-455
ISSN: 2158-3803
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In: Journal of political power, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 437-455
ISSN: 2158-3803
In: Critical studies on security, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 169-186
ISSN: 2162-4909
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 601-622
ISSN: 1477-9021
The turn to materialism emerging in world politics scholarship promises fruitful ways of understanding power and political life by focusing on agency in the physical world. Yet immaterial information and 'the virtual' seem to dominate our lives. How can we understand the relationship between the material and the informational? Does this understanding promise any further insight into agency, power, and world politics? The focus in this paper is on the materiality (corporeality) and information of the human body as a special case. Embodied information is the information contained in the body that can potentially be accessed by others through an act of power. The way in which embodied knowledge is implicated in practices of world politics is exemplified by surveillance, DNA databases, and organ trade. Bodies are also the means by which information becomes sensible: we understand information from various sources and with various kinds of content through our bodies' ability to sense. This knowing body is also implicated in power, as exemplified by the use of sound and the augmentation of the senses through technology. Drawing on the interpretation of embodied information and knowing bodies, this article provides a pragmatic model of world politics in which to control how information flows, how it is extracted from the body, how it is inserted or received, how quickly, and to what end, is to have power or to be powerful.
In: Journal of information technology & politics: JITP, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 129-145
ISSN: 1933-169X
In: Japanese journal of political science, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 143-145
ISSN: 1474-0060
In: International studies perspectives: ISP, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 384-395
ISSN: 1528-3585
In: The review of international organizations, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 301-303
ISSN: 1559-744X
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 2, Heft 3
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Global studies quarterly: GSQ, Band 2, Heft 2
ISSN: 2634-3797
AbstractCruel memes spread messages of hate via social media. The Internet itself extends the memes' geographical reach, and many such cruel memes circulate across borders. This article examines the activities of cruel memeing—practices of creating, commenting on, reinforcing ("liking"), sharing, remixing, and otherwise endorsing cruel memes—as microscale hostile engagements in global politics. This is a politics of the everyday that is accessible to people in their ordinary lives and that is designed to be entertaining as well as cruel. The research draws on a large dataset of memes, comment threads, and related information from two opposed Reddit communities, r/TheLeftCantMeme and r/TheRightCantMeme. The power-flow theoretical framework structures an interpretive analysis of how cruel memes circulate within the social media space. We examine content (including narrative, degree of cruelty, and other components), and velocity of information flow, as well as access to the flow. Focusing on racism, antisemitism, and disdain for political opponents, we draw on interpretive methods to analyze the flow of information that spreads hate. We find: (1) normalization of divisiveness, derisiveness, and bigotry; (2) justifications of violence; and (3) emergence of agents despite pseudonymity. Cruel memeing activities combine with the structure of the online communities to spread hatred far beyond social media platforms.
In: International political sociology, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 159-177
ISSN: 1749-5687
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 191-213
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: Knowledge, technology and policy: an international quarterly, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 125-136
ISSN: 1874-6314