ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role played by communities of activist subtitlers characterized here as emerging agents of political intervention in public life in facilitating the transnational flow of self-mediated textual ties. It argues that by contesting the harmonizing pressure of corporate media structures and maximizing the visibility of non-hegemonic voices within mainstream-oriented audiovisual cultures, activist subtitling collectivises typify the ongoing shift from representative to deliberative models of public participation in post-industrial societies. The chapter engages with the centrality of affect conceptualized from the disciplinary standpoint of bio politics as a mobilizing force that fosters inter-subjectivity within and across radical subtitling collectivises. It focuses on practices of self-mediation driven by a desire to effect social change, locating itself within a growing body of literature that explores how politically engaged individuals build and maintain ties within virtual networks of like-minded citizens, often through social media, to manipulate and circulate media content.
