Abstract
Using the case study of Internet protest video The French Democracy, this article demonstrates the process by which a counternarrative of current events (the 2005 banlieue riots), though almost completely excluded from its broader national mainstream news, can in fact appear on a global mainstream news agenda, as well as produce cyber-publics and counterpublics. It further demonstrates the difficulties of keeping a narrative intact once it starts broadly circulating and is reframed in various fragmentary ways. While new media cultural production allows wide technological access and potential agency, it does not guarantee intermedia narrative fidelity, distribution, or attention. Indeed, it demonstrates such productions' fragile and contingent conditions of appearance in a field of political and economic structures and information warfare.
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