On January 24, 2017, the Trump administration tried to censor various science-related federal agencies, most notably, the National Park Service. This case study presents the emergence of “alternative” National Park Service Twitter accounts that subverted the ban and explores how “rogue rangers” share in and resist organizational authority through communicative practices we interpret as dis/attributing communicative action to various figures to do so. Through qualitative analysis of textual and non-textual data pertaining to the accounts, we demonstrate that organizational members create ambiguity through communicative dis/attribution to do and say more things than authorized, while maintaining a link to their organization, for it is as members that their actions and words are authoritative. The study concludes by theorizing three contributions to the literature on authority and resistance, in particular in the context of social media: 1) it shows that authority and resistance are at play even outside of conventional organizations, which conversely means that social media activity can display a level of organizationality; 2) it demonstrates that the communicative performance of authority and resistance rests on membership ambiguity; and 3) it extends current conversations on the communicative performance of authority by showing that the same practices can also perform resistance.

2017 年 1 月 24 日，特朗普政府试图审查各种与科学相关的联邦机构，其中最著名的是国家公园管理局。本案例研究展示了颠覆禁令的“替代性”国家公园管理局 Twitter 帐户的出现，并探讨了“流氓护林员”如何通过我们解释为不/归因于各种人物的交流行为的交流实践分享和抵制组织权威。通过对与账户有关的文本和非文本数据的定性分析，我们证明组织成员通过交流分散/归因来做和说比授权更多的事情，同时保持与组织的联系，因为作为成员，他们的言行是权威的。该研究通过对权威和抵抗文献的三个贡献进行理论化得出结论，特别是在社交媒体的背景下：1) 它表明权威和抵抗甚至在传统组织之外也在发挥作用，这反过来意味着社交媒体活动可以展示组织水平；2）它表明权威和阻力的交际表现取决于成员的模糊性；3）它通过表明相同的实践也可以产生抵抗来扩展当前关于权威的交际表现的对话。这反过来意味着社交媒体活动可以表现出一定程度的组织性；2）它表明权威和阻力的交际表现取决于成员的模糊性；3）它通过表明相同的实践也可以产生抵抗来扩展当前关于权威的交际表现的对话。这反过来意味着社交媒体活动可以表现出一定程度的组织性；2）它表明权威和阻力的交际表现取决于成员的模糊性；3）它通过表明相同的实践也可以产生抵抗来扩展当前关于权威的交际表现的对话。