Reestablishing Discourse Control: The Tripartite Collusion to Snuff Out Online Dissent, Opposition, and Counterhegemonic News and Views

Biographical Sketch

Emil Marmol is a PhD candidate at University of Toronto/OISE. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he has published on critical media literacy, Cuban politics, the impact of neoliberalism on higher education, repression of Latina/os in education, standardized testing, labour struggles, and film. Emil is currently writing his doctoral thesis as an autoethnography/testimonio about growing up as the son of Latino immigrants in Orange County, California. Emil has professional film and radio production experience.

Type of Presentation

Individual presentation

Brief Description of Presentation

The government and its related bodies, tech giants, and corporate news firms are working together to suppress alternative sources of online news and information while simultaneously reestablishing the corporate press as the sole purveyor and manufacturer of public consent. This paper will provide details on the actors involved, and how this process is being carried out.

Abstract of Proposal

Trust in government and corporate news media institutions is at a historic low and continues to descend. The public is increasingly skeptical of the information received from elected officials and corporate news outlets. Research has shown that over 75% of Americans are worried about war. Capitalism has drastically fallen out of favor with 18-29 year olds in the US. These developments pose a direct challenge to the power and legitimacy of the established order. While the foregoing can be explained by a number of factors, one that cannot be denied is the public’s increased access to dissenting, oppositional, and counterhegemonic sources of information facilitated by the internet. In response, the government and its related bodies, tech giants, and corporate news firms are colluding to limit and/or eliminate our access to diverse viewpoints online, while reestablishing the corporate press as the sole purveyor and manufacturer of public consent. Historically, the economic and political elite have used insidious methods both overt and covert to maintain their position of power, and the present is no exception. Ruling elites wish to reestablish their preferred narrative as the only acceptable worldview, and to impose discourse control over the public. They are doing this by censoring and limiting, or altogether eliminating, access to alternative sources of news and information via search engines and social media platforms. This paper will provide a detailed explanation of how this is being done and will serve as a rallying call to protect the internet as a public commons, free of censorship and open to all.

Location

Session 2C ( Tellfair, Hilton Garden Inn)

Start Date

2-22-2019 1:20 PM

End Date

2-22-2019 2:50 PM

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Reestablishing Discourse Control: The Tripartite Collusion to Snuff Out Online Dissent, Opposition, and Counterhegemonic News and Views

Session 2C ( Tellfair, Hilton Garden Inn)

Trust in government and corporate news media institutions is at a historic low and continues to descend. The public is increasingly skeptical of the information received from elected officials and corporate news outlets. Research has shown that over 75% of Americans are worried about war. Capitalism has drastically fallen out of favor with 18-29 year olds in the US. These developments pose a direct challenge to the power and legitimacy of the established order. While the foregoing can be explained by a number of factors, one that cannot be denied is the public’s increased access to dissenting, oppositional, and counterhegemonic sources of information facilitated by the internet. In response, the government and its related bodies, tech giants, and corporate news firms are colluding to limit and/or eliminate our access to diverse viewpoints online, while reestablishing the corporate press as the sole purveyor and manufacturer of public consent. Historically, the economic and political elite have used insidious methods both overt and covert to maintain their position of power, and the present is no exception. Ruling elites wish to reestablish their preferred narrative as the only acceptable worldview, and to impose discourse control over the public. They are doing this by censoring and limiting, or altogether eliminating, access to alternative sources of news and information via search engines and social media platforms. This paper will provide a detailed explanation of how this is being done and will serve as a rallying call to protect the internet as a public commons, free of censorship and open to all.