No. 5 - 04 / 2012:
Citizenship, Activism and Mobilization: Internet Politics in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria
edited by Orlin Spassov
This article examines the Greek debt “crisis” that began in 2010 as a significant moment of rupture and transformation in media practices and ideologies. As the mass media system of broadcast television and newspaper journalism undergoes scathing critique by large segments of Greek society, a new culture of reporting and following the news has been flourishing on the internet. This article considers how this reimagining of the news (its object, agent, audience, purpose) is part of a re-imagining of the political in which witnessing and reporting are positioned as fundamental acts of embodied citizenship.
