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a (mostly pluralist) democratic setting. On the other hand, approaches drawing on media discourse see ‘the political’ as the possibility for disruptive and
subversive forms of politics, which may allow for alternative political agency in an agonistic democratic space (Mouffe, 2005, 2013). In addressing questions
of discontinuities in democratic politics, either in the form of the dislocation of politics (Laclau, 1990) or institutional change, digital media may play a (non)
subversive or an (un)critical role when it comes to supporting or preventing societal change. Our claim is that framing studies and discourse theory, while
apparently displaying a lot of similar traits, provide fundamentally diverging answers to the questions of how and why new developments in the media
landscape can nurture political agency in a democratic situation. Selected references: Couldry, N. (2012). Media, Society, World. Social Theory and Digital
Media Practice. Cambridge, Malden: Polity Press. Entman, R. (2004). Projections of Power. London: The University of Chicago Press. Laclau, E. (1990). New
Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time. London: Verso.