"Fandom as such is not a problem, if the researcher, who is also a fan of his objects of study, manages to maintain critical reflexivity. ... In a lot of contemporary works on popular culture, one gets the impression that scholars want to rationalize their own fandom and their love for commodity cult"
"Is Online Fascism Participatory Culture? ...www.ultras.ws is a discussion forum of the Ultras soccer fan movement. One can find anti-Semitic and racist jokes in the forum, and in a survey conducted in the forum 56% said that it is no problem if fans shout "Jews" for characterizaing opposing teams. T"
"Politics on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are possible, but are minority issues--the predominant focus of users is on non-political entertainment. Web 2.0 corporations and the usage they enable are not an expression of participatory democracy. As long as corporations dominate the Internet, it will n"
"For discussing the notion of communism, I have deliberately used many quotations by Marx and Engels in order to show that they see communism not as a repressive and totalitarian society, but as a form of humanism that is based on co-operation, participatory economic democracy, and well-rounded human"