Following Kitchin et al.’s (2013) paper, this response focuses on what it means to be ‘minimally’ political. In the first instance, this involves an elaboration of Olivier Marchart’s concept of ‘minimal politics’ and discussing it in relation to the wider debate between agonistic and deliberative understandings of the political. After this discussion of some of the theoretical underpinning of Kitchin et al.’s paper, the response then moves on to discuss what the consequences of this position are for the realities of blogs as political spaces. The response ends by calling for increased interrogation of what it is that blogs do ‘differently’ to other, more traditional, political spaces.
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