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Lehrveranstaltungen

(Dis-)Information Societies: Critique and the Politics of Truth (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Randi Heinrichs, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Fr, 24.05.2019, 09:45 - Fr, 24.05.2019, 17:30 | HMS 231 + 232
Einzeltermin | Sa, 25.05.2019, 09:45 - Sa, 25.05.2019, 15:30 | HMS 231 + 232
Einzeltermin | Fr, 14.06.2019, 09:45 - Fr, 14.06.2019, 17:30 | HMS 231 + 232
Einzeltermin | Sa, 15.06.2019, 09:45 - Sa, 15.06.2019, 15:30 | HMS 231 + 232

Inhalt: Ever since the NSA-affair in 2013 and the WikiLeaks-disclosures, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Trumps questionable use of Twitter, not a day goes by without the media reporting on Whistleblowing, leaks, hacks, and the spread of (dis-)information. The consensus is that fake news, crowd-sourced knowledge production and Whistleblowing has changed established political and social rules. However, looking at the speaking positions within this political field, a range of varying interests appears. For example, the Whistleblower is celebrated as a human rights activist, a ‘public voice’, a hero even, or chased and criminalized as a hacker, traitor or spy. Critique is dismissed as Fake News, while disinformation is shared across online platforms as alternative truth. Foucault conceptualizes truth as a game where valid knowledge is generated in relation to power and connected to criticism. With a close and distant reading of Foucault’s later works about ‘parrhesia’, the ancient form of truth-telling, the course will develop different understandings of this game of truth, to then discuss its potential actualizations. For feminist, queer and non-white critiques have always stressed the importance of rethinking these politics of truth. What mechanisms, dynamics and power relations are structuring the politics of truth in (dis-)information societies?

Digital Media & Social Justice (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ioana Jucan

Termin:
 14-täglich | Dienstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 02.04.2019 - 02.07.2019 | HMS 139 | Hamburg Media School, Finkenau 35, 22081 Hamburg
Einzeltermin | Di, 28.05.2019, 14:00 - Di, 28.05.2019, 17:30 | fällt aus !
Einzeltermin | Di, 25.06.2019, 09:45 - Di, 25.06.2019, 17:30 | HMS 139

Inhalt: This course examines the complex and ambivalent relations between digital media and social justice. We will: • investigate the ways in which digital technology is imbricated with assumptions about and structures of race, sex, class, and gender. • examine the ways in which digital technology can, on the one hand, aid activism and social change and, on the other, perpetuate injustice and undermine democracy. • analyze recent cases of Internet activism and social movements aided by social media, as well as cases of digitally enabled control and manipulation by governments and market actors. Such events have shown that digital media is both a means of empowerment and one of control.