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这篇文章通过批评Nicholas J. Fuentes主持的有影响力的美国反动直播“美国优先”及其格罗珀粉丝,为媒体民粹主义的唯物主义理论做出了贡献。尽管富恩特斯的社交媒体账户因其反犹太、反黑人和性别歧视的仇恨言论而被取消平台或被行政吊销,但他还是扩大了自己的网络存在。为了理解民粹主义影响者下台的意识形态后果,我阅读了《美国优先》(America First)的片段,将其置于美国极右翼亚文化的经济和基础设施背景下。我认为媒体研究必须关注资产阶级数字平台管理,因为它是一种再现种族资本主义不民主条件的技术。富恩特斯的下台助长了反动民粹主义的崛起,因为它强化了占有欲强的个人主义,或者是一种白人男性对直接接触公众的幻想。民粹主义的“人民”起着媒体的作用,他们的消失使针对边缘人群的主权暴力自然化。媒体民粹主义表明,有必要超越“主流”与“边缘”平台的二分法,考虑资产阶级数字公众和白人民族主义挑衅的物质亲和力。
Deplatforming “the people”: media populism, racial capitalism, and the regulation of online reactionary networks
This essay contributes to a materialist theory of media populism by criticizing America First, an influential U.S. American reactionary live-stream hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes, and its Groyper fans. Fuentes has expanded his online presence despite the deplatforming, or administrative suspension, of his social media accounts on account of his antisemitic, antiblack, and sexist hate speech. To understand the ideological ramifications of deplatforming populist influencers, I read clips from America First into the economic and infrastructural context of U.S. far-right subcultures. I argue that media studies must attend to bourgeois digital platform management as a technology which reproduces the undemocratic conditions of racial capitalism. The deplatforming of Fuentes facilitates the ascent of reactionary populism by reinforcing possessive individualism, or a white masculine fantasy of unmediated access to the public. “The people” of populism functions as media whose lost presence naturalizes sovereign violence against marginalized people. Media populism illustrates the need for to move beyond the dichotomy of “mainstream” versus “fringe” platforms to consider the material affinity of bourgeois digital publics and white nationalist provocation.
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Media, Culture & Society provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts. It regularly engages with a wider range of issues in cultural and social analysis. Its focus is on substantive topics and on critique and innovation in theory and method. An interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes contributions in any relevant areas and from a worldwide authorship.