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Understanding Discursive Resistance in Online Communication: Space, Rhetoric, and Hate Groups

Chapter 9 explores crucial concepts in online communication, including discursive resistance and its significance as a strategy against dominant power structures. This chapter distinguishes between "place" and "space," analyzes agonistic and utopian rhetoric, and highlights the existence of hate sites. It discusses how online hate groups utilize the Internet for community building, anonymity, and outreach. By examining these dynamics, you will gain insights into how alternative spaces foster resistance and critique contemporary social orders. **Relevant

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Understanding Discursive Resistance in Online Communication: Space, Rhetoric, and Hate Groups

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  1. Online Communication Chapter 9 Carving Alternative Spaces

  2. Online Communication In this chapter, you will learn: • A definition for discursive resistance; • The distinction between place and space; • The strategies of agonistic and utopian rhetoric; • A definition for hate sites; and • The advantages the Internet provides hate groups.

  3. discursive resistance: a process through which text, oral, nonverbal communication, and other forms of meaning-making are employed to image alternatives to dominant power structures Online Communication

  4. Online Communication Place vs. Space place: a location which formalizes, authorizes, and renders permanent the processes through which dominant interests maintain their influence over individuals or groups space: a tactical response to a place through individual or group rearticulation of its intended use

  5. Online Communication Intentional vs. Ad-hoc Communities intentional communities: planned organizations of individuals to accomplish some goal or maintain some lifestyle ad-hoc communities: communities of individuals brought together by an unforeseen event

  6. Online Communication Resisting through Agonistic Rhetoric agonistic rhetoric: discourse that produces or invokes ritualized conflict with an established order Example: A shadow page such as “K-Mart Sucks,” which attempts to invoke feelings of guilt and ultimately achieve redemption

  7. Online Communication Resisting through Utopian Rhetoric utopian rhetoric: discourse that imagines an ideal world that is distant from the real world in time and/or place in order to critique the contemporary social order Example: A parody site such as “GWBush.com,” which seeks to reveal the imperfections of the dominant order through ridicule

  8. Online Communication Utopian Rhetoric • Absurdity • Community • Social Order

  9. Online Communication social realism: the use of empirical data to examine computerization as it is actually practiced and experienced

  10. Online Communication Hate Sites A hate site “advocates violence against or unreasonable hostility toward those persons or organizations identified by their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability.” <http://www.tolerance.org>

  11. Online Communication Internet Advantages for Hate Groups • Community • Anonymity • Outreach • Commerce • Information Anti-Defamation League. (1999). Poisoning the web: Hatred online. <http://www.adl.org/frames/front_poisoning.html>.

  12. Online Communication A Brief Review • What is the function of discursive resistance? • What is the distinction between place and space? • How does agonistic rhetoric seek to persuade? • What three features are common in utopian rhetoric? • What five advantages do hate groups see to using the Internet?

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