Hi Koen, For my dissertation, I am currently looking at how ethno-cultural narratives are created in online communities (spec. blogs that discuss domestic violence within the South Asian dispora in the US), from the perspectives of ethnic-community empowerment and identity negotiation. I haven't looked at Nancy Fraser's work yet, but I have come across research that reworks the public/private debate, esp. in the context of creating minority counter-publics online, often working from within the dominant discursive spaces. You can perhaps refer to Rohit Chopra's work, "Global primordialities: virtual identity politics in online Hindutva and online Dalit discourse," which looks at the intersection of technology and culture in online representations (community websites) of the elite/dominant Hindu nationalist community and the subaltern Dalit community (New Media & Society, 2006, vol. 8/2, pp. 187-206). You can also try: Mallapragada, M. (2006). Home, Homeland, Homepage: Belonging and the Indian-American web. New Media and Society, 8(2), pp. 207-227. She talks about how online interactions/communities of ethnic minorities often ruptures the public/private, gender-race divide/politics, and creates not only geo-political, but also rhetorical transgressions and ambivalence. I hope these help and prove interesting for your purposes. Best, Ishani Mukherjee Doctoral Candidate Dept. of Communication, UIC On Mon, January 31, 2011 9:37 am, Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) wrote:
Dear all,
I have recently regained an interest in Nancy Fraser's reworking of Habermas' notion of the public sphere. Especially her writings on 'subaltern counter publics' where people circulate views that critically engage with mainstream/dominant public spheres have caught my attention as they seem to capture nicely the dynamics of certain online discussion boards that fall below the radar. For instance dedicated discussion boards set up and frequented by ethnic minorities.
However, I was wondering if anyone on the list uses a similar lens in her/his work and/or is currently engaged with the work of Fraser or similar?
Kind regards,
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