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Abstract
This study examines the use of digital media in two Nunavut communities in response to proposed resource-extraction projects. Using Dahlberg’s (2011) concepts of counterpublics and deliberative democracy, the study links tactics employed in Baker Lake and Pond Inlet to broader activists’ use of digital media to reorganise social, political, and economic life. Drawing on the field of postcolonial studies, these cases demonstrate that social media are being incorporated into the development of new political imaginaries.
Résumé
Cette étude examine l’utilisation des médias numériques en réponse à des propositions de projets d’extraction de ressources naturelles au sein de deux communautés du Nunavut. En utilisant les concepts de contre-publics et de démocratie délibérative de Dahlberg (2011), l’étude lie les tactiques employées à Baker Lake et à Pond Inlet aux pratiques plus larges d’utilisation des médias numériques par des militants pour réorganiser la vie sociale, politique et économique. En nous inspirant d’une perspective postcoloniale, nous démontrons que les médias sociaux sont incorporés au développement de nouveaux imaginaires politiques.
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