Władza i przeciwwładza a nowe media. Dyskurs polityczny i jego aktorzy.
Power, counter-power and new media. Political discourse and its actors.

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is an attempt to empirically verify the thesis of Ul- rich Beck concerning the formation and growth forces of counter-power in the era of new media. The emergence of new media, especially the Internet and its impact on traditional media has left a mark on the whole field of political communication. On the one hand, enabled the existing actors (politicians, journalists) use of new communication channels, on the other hand opened the field of public debate for new actors (bloggers, social movements, citizens). In this text, I will try to answer the question of whether the „new media” give rise to the development of counter-power in the glo- bal and local world, whether it is theoretical utopia, a tool with a limited impact on power? In this context, I would like to look at the Polish experience with Acta movement, „Citizens of Science”, or movement „Mothers of the first quarter”.

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