Occupying London by Samuel Burgum & Morell Ildikó Asztalos

Author:Samuel Burgum & Morell, Ildikó Asztalos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Shaun paused before offering another example in which such internal divisions had undermined the movement’s ability to affirm and manage their collective appearance. Because social media platforms, as ‘neoliberal technologies of the self’ (Mirowski 2013: 328), tended to be designed for single administrators (or small groups of administrators), individuals who were unaccountable in the structureless movement could problematically wield greater control than others over the overall identity that was being conveyed online:

Like, we had a real problem with Twitter, because one geezer from our gang … used [our working group] name, he said … well it was when Julian Assange went into the Ecuadorean embassy and some people, some occupiers, were in favour of him (I thought he was alright, I didn’t have any strong views). But some guy from [our working group] just had a real issue with him and used … made a really stupid comment on Twitter about ‘we at [working group] are not rape apologists’. And you know, with Twitter, you’ve got about 121 characters and you can do it in 20 seconds … and we lost half our hits in one day. You know, that was kind of the beginning of the end really, when I look back at it.

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