'Fuck the clowns from Grease!!' Fantasies of participation and agency in the YouTube comments on a Cypriot Problem documentary
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F14%3A10285246" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/14:10285246 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.875582" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.875582</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2013.875582" target="_blank" >10.1080/1369118X.2013.875582</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
'Fuck the clowns from Grease!!' Fantasies of participation and agency in the YouTube comments on a Cypriot Problem documentary
Original language description
The article aims to contribute to (and deepen) the debates on participatory theory through the usage of the psychoanalytical concept of fantasy. Its starting point is that participation is defined as a process where power relations are equalized. As a society with totally balanced power relations is both a real and impossible desire - given society's diversity and complexity - there is a need to theorize how situations of 'full' (or maximalist) participation are unattainable and empty, but simultaneously play a key role as ultimate anchoring points and horizons. By reverting to the notion of fantasy, (maximalist) participation can be defined as a phantasmagoric discourse that incorporates, firstly, the impossible idea of reaching a full power equilibrium in society and, secondly, the ability to serves as a crucial driving force for the attempts to further deepen democracy. Moreover, this conceptualization also allows me to acknowledge the ways that this (maximalist) participatory fanta
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Information Communication and Society
ISSN
1369-118X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1001-1016
UT code for WoS article
000339101500006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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