Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process

PATRICK HOEY

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56444-5

Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process

PATRICK HOEY

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Abstract

Irish republican groups have throughout their history sought out countercultural media spaces within which to communicate messages and policy positions that run contrary to the dominant political paradigms of their time.

During the Northern Irish Peace Process (1998-), mainstream and dissident republican groups have used online activist media as means of bypassing the mainstream media and critics of their ideological positions and actions.

However, while the net was a fruitful space for expression for these groups and political parties, it has also been a space in which non-republicans have also been able to surveille their criminality and deviance. This culminated in the 2019 murder of the journalist Lyra McKee which was perhaps the moment when dissident republican groups were finally denuded of any political legitimacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Crime Capitalism and the Media in the 21st Century
Editors	Alan Grattan, Neil Ewan, Marcus Leaning, Paul Manning
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	183-203
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-56443-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56444-5
Publication status	Published - 16 Apr 2021

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Crime, media and Culture
Publisher	Palgrave MacMillan

Keywords

Irish republicanism
Deviance
Capitalism
Social media
Activist media

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Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process. / HOEY, PATRICK.
Crime Capitalism and the Media in the 21st Century . ed. / Alan Grattan; Neil Ewan; Marcus Leaning; Paul Manning. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 183-203 (Palgrave Studies in Crime, media and Culture).

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Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process

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