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posted on 2020-03-23, 11:57 authored by Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya Gucdemir, Umut Korkut, Aidan McGarryAidan McGarryThis chapter explores the relevance of the protest song as political
communication in the Internet era. Focusing on the prolific and diverse YouTube music video output of the Gezi Park protest of 2013, we explore how digital technologies and social media offer new opportunities for protest music to be produced and reach new audiences. We argue that the affordances of digital media and Internet platforms such as YouTube play a crucial part in the production, distribution and consumption of protest music. In the music videos, collected from Twitter, activists use a range of aesthetic and rhetorical tools such as various mash-up techniques
to challenge mainstream media reporting on the protest, communicate
solidarity, and express resistance to dominant political discourse.
communication in the Internet era. Focusing on the prolific and diverse YouTube music video output of the Gezi Park protest of 2013, we explore how digital technologies and social media offer new opportunities for protest music to be produced and reach new audiences. We argue that the affordances of digital media and Internet platforms such as YouTube play a crucial part in the production, distribution and consumption of protest music. In the music videos, collected from Twitter, activists use a range of aesthetic and rhetorical tools such as various mash-up techniques
to challenge mainstream media reporting on the protest, communicate
solidarity, and express resistance to dominant political discourse.
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