Gillan, Margaret and Cox, Laurence (2014) Indymedia.ie: a critical space for social movements in Ireland. In: Defining events: power, resistance and identity in 21st century Ireland. Irish Society . Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 12-31. ISBN 978-0-7190-9056-1

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Abstract

“Hegemony” – the way popular consent to power and economic structures is organised – is an alien word to many people, seemingly coming from a different world to the familiar trivialities of Middle Ireland. But the complacent idea of Gay Byrne’s Late Late Show as the nation’s living room is a perfect example of hegemony at work: the state broadcaster offering a cosy, semi-official version of “national community”. Its liberal version appears in comments about how “it was a breakthrough” when something appeared on the Late Late: not grasping that “issues” make the mainstream media as a result, not a cause, of social movements struggling against the official state of affairs.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Indymedia.ie; critical space; social movements; Ireland;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	5651
Depositing User:	Dr. Laurence Cox
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2015 14:45
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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