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Pink organising: Notes on communication, self-organisation, noise and radical social movements

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posted on 2020-02-27, 11:23 authored by Thomas Swann, Andrea Ghelfi
This article explores the presence of noise in processes of communication and organisation in social movements. While the concept of noise has always had a role in discussions of communication, it is in light of the influence and use of social media that it comes to the fore as crucial in terms of how we understand communication. Rather than being a factor that interferes with effective communication, we will argue that noise is in fact inseparable from the experience of receiving information and organising through social media. Furthermore, the emergence of different ‘nuances’ of noise tells us something about different dynamics of self-organisation via social media. This article analyses the online forms of organisation of the 15M movement and the experiences of Dutch radical left activists to inform a better appreciation of the radical potential of a certain variant of noise: pink noise.

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  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

Organization

Volume

26

Issue

5

Pages

696 - 715

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© The Author

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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Organization and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508419855711. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference.

Acceptance date

2019-02-01

Publication date

2019-06-21

Copyright date

2019

ISSN

1350-5084

eISSN

1461-7323

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Thomas Swann. Deposit date: 26 February 2020

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