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Forgetting History: Mediated Reflections on Occupy Wall Street

Author(s) -

Michael Daubs,

Jeffrey Wimmer

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

media and communication

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804

H-Index - 19

ISSN - 2183-2439

DOI - 10.17645/mac.v5i3.979

Subject(s) - rhetoric , sociology , forgetting , movement (music) , the internet , social media , media studies , social movement , mythology , perception , political science , aesthetics , history , psychology , law , art , politics , computer science , philosophy , world wide web , cognitive psychology , classics , neuroscience , linguistics

This study examines how Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors’ practices and stated understanding of media act on social perceptions of networked media. It stems from a discursive content analysis of online commentary from OWS protestors and supporters, using different sources from the first Adbusters blog in July 2011 until May 2012. We demonstrate how the belief in the myth of an egalitarian Internet was incorporated into the offline structure of OWS and led OWS participants to adopt rhetoric that distances the movement from past protest actions by stating the movement was “like the Internet”.

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