Nguyen concludes that there was not a single crisis but a chain of intersecting and profound political and cultural conflicts triggered by the economic upheavals, which led to the emergence of an extremely dynamic and unstable transnational digital public sphere, where different political and cultural viewpoints collided.
Dennis Nguyen is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. His research focuses on online public spheres and political communication, with emphasis placed on transnational political discourses.
1. Introduction.- 2. Transnational Media Communication.- 3. Public Discourses and Political Online Communication.- 4. Analysing Transnational Web Spheres.- 5. The Crisis Web Sphere.- 6. Conclusion.