Our friend, the internet: Postcolonial mediatization in Morocco
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Ines Braune
Abstract
This article investigates the ‘discursive notion’ of communication technology, as embedded in the discussion of mediatization. Instead of focusing on the technical structure of media and its impact on society, I will alternatively turn my attention to its symbolic dimension. I will look beyond the surface of the symbolic, by questioning how this dimension has been discursively created. As such, I suggest using the term ‘discursive notion’, as discourse also refers to power relations. The analysis of the discursive notion relating to the internet in Morocco is developed through the critical approach of postcolonial theory. This is done with the aim of dissecting the construction of colonial discourse, and in order to show how specific power relations continue to function to present.
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- Introduction into the thematic issue
- New directions of internet activism in Egypt
- Our friend, the internet: Postcolonial mediatization in Morocco
- Pathways of intercultural communication research. How different research communities of communication scholars deal with the topic of intercultural communication
- Comment to Averbeck-Lietz: Mapping intercultural communications: National or doctrinal comparisons?
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Masthead
- Articles
- Introduction into the thematic issue
- New directions of internet activism in Egypt
- Our friend, the internet: Postcolonial mediatization in Morocco
- Pathways of intercultural communication research. How different research communities of communication scholars deal with the topic of intercultural communication
- Comment to Averbeck-Lietz: Mapping intercultural communications: National or doctrinal comparisons?
- The methodology trap – Why media and communication studies are not really international
