Artículo
E-motions and participation in technopopulist Movement-parties. Enthusiasm and technopolitical disillusion
Autor/es | Gianolla, Cristiano
Aguiló, Antoni Sabariego, Jesús |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Periodismo I |
Fecha de publicación | 2024 |
Fecha de depósito | 2024-05-24 |
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Resumen | Social movements (SMs) protesting against the consequences of the austerity produced by the 2008 great recession leveraged collective participation as a paradigmatic way of revamping democratic institutions and processes. ... Social movements (SMs) protesting against the consequences of the austerity produced by the 2008 great recession leveraged collective participation as a paradigmatic way of revamping democratic institutions and processes. In southern Europe, participation was harnessed by technopolitical movement-parties (MPs) such as the Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy and Podemos in Spain. These are political forces combining SM characteristics with a technopolitical narrative to induce ‘e-motions’: emotional arousal of the membership produced by idealising the potential of digital technologies to enact unprecedented popular participation in order to renew democracy. Combining technocracy (popular competence via technopolitics) with populism (people vs elite rhetoric) the M5S and Podemos built a technopopulist discourse able to generate emotional engagement of the membership and high expectations for collective participation. However, the centralism of the leadership and its control over technopolitics produced an individualised model of engagement which led to disillusion. The article firstly elaborates a narrative literature reviews on participation, technopolitics, movement-parties, populism and emotions to frame the affective relationship between participation and technopopulism. Secondly it uses qualitative methods to scrutinise the constituent process of M5S and Podemos technopolitics - when the digital process and infrastructures were created within both MPs – outlining the emotions elicited by technopolitical technopopulism. |
Agencias financiadoras | Fundación para la Ciencia y la Tecnología. Portugal Universidad de las Islas Baleares European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) |
Identificador del proyecto | UIDP/50012/2020 |
Cita | Gianolla, C., Aguiló, A. y Sabariego, J. (2024). E-motions and participation in technopopulist Movement-parties. Enthusiasm and technopolitical disillusion. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2024.2332233. |
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