From Street to Screen and Back: The New Vernaculars of Political Dissent
Political dissent has never belonged to Parliament, party offices or newspaper editorials alone. It lives in slogans, songs, street theatre, cartoons, campus jokes, tea-stall arguments and the stubborn refusal to accept an official explanation as the last word. The screen has not replaced the street. It has altered the traffic between speech, performance and collective action. Popular dissent is strongest when speech becomes relationship, and relationship becomes the capacity to act.
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