Arcybiskup Michalik na celowniku semiologicznych partyzantów
Archbishop Michalik targeted by semiological querrillas

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author uses an interpretative analysis of cultural texts to investigate how the internet surfers criticized a controversial utterance of archbishop Józef Michalik on the foundations of pedophilia in the Catholic Church. The analyzed visual artifacts are perceived as a form of cyberactivism, culture jamming, or even pro -Promethean counterculture. According to Ken Goffman and Dan Joy this last one believes in the force of new technologies, expecting them to make human communication more democratic and change the social world. In reference to Michael Strangelove, the author states that the world wide web is, despite certain attempts of censorship, a space of liberate expression of citizens, while the analyzed subversive practices create – with the spirit of situationist détournement – a new kind of public space as well as the public itself that learns how to defy to different forms of dominance, control or power.

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