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Media and Politics: Proposal

Media and Politics

Introduction

Does the study of government online differ from investigating government in (historical or contemporary) offline settings? What is the influence of agency and resistance formed by the internet? Is the internet any different in how it forms the government of representation? What are the online equivalent of the more 'classic' methods of coercion? research and expertise have become progressively significant in communal science studies. Internet is a continuation of and in dialogue with (new) newspapers studies. But opposing to the one-to-many Medias, online assemblies are (interactive) buyers as well as (customized) producers. However, cyberspace is not a substitute or derivative of everyday life. What matters is how participants relate to the internet as a means of communication and additionally, to discover what the socio-political consequences of computer-mediated communities and internet activism may be. This area of study inescapably goes into into contested terrains: the internet reinforces the panoptic state scheme through even more sophisticated surveillance methods; feeds the logic of capitalist corporate control; and deepens the promise escapism, alienation, or submission of consumers. Yet, the paradox is that it furthermore decentralises power: examples from the Mexican Zapatista action in 1994, to the birth of the anti-capitalist action with the assault of Seattle in1999, and the antiwar movement's post-9/11, testify that the internet can be turned into a device of resistance. The internet assists neoliberal globalisation and imperialism; and at the identical time it conceives spaces for anti-imperialist labour, therefore it is unrealistic to understand the structure of up to date communal movements without discovering the internet.

Aims and Objectives

This paper will study the socio-political implications of the internet in general; and ethnographic analyses of internet utilisation in the Middle East in specific. The overall target of the lectures is two-fold: to develop critical expertise about contemporary grassroots dynamics of Middle East politics; and academic skills to analyse the powerful crystallization of politics and the internet. The option is interdisciplinary in character and derived from methodological/theoretical examinations that bring together contributions from anthropology, Politics, and Media Studies. The emphasis during the lectures is on acquiring the tools with which to understand internet research with regards to the Middle East. Taken the general objectives and specific focus together, the main objectives are formulated as follows:

To look at the decentralization of information and communication in the context of contemporary social movements; gain insight into newly accessible voices emanating from the Middle East;

To deconstruct the Arab-Israeli confrontation through the prism of the internet;

Hypothesis/ research Question

How online political representations correspond to offline political practices”

How to identify both the offline context of activists and their online agency; in other words: the specific function of the internet in their mobilization and protest strategies?

Literature review

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