Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Lehrveranstaltungen

Conjunctures of (Anti-)Racism in the Digital Age (Seminar)

Inhalt: (Anti-)Racism features prominently on the political agenda. In 2019, footballers in England’s Premier League staged a 24h social media boycott to protest against racist abuse on Facebook, Instagram and other platforms against black players. Meanwhile, students in Cape Town, Oxford, Amsterdam and other cities have been campaigning for the decolonisation of the university curriculum in anthropology, sociology, and other disciplines. At the same time, Germany’s previous minister of the interior prevented an independent inquiry on racism within the police with the argument that racism was illegal, and that the police – since it is tasked with enforcing the law – can therefore by definition not be racist. This tautological argument was met by a ‘shit storm’ on Twitter, citing examples of police violence demonstrating the opposite. What all these examples illustrate is an important feature of (anti-)racism in the digital age: the internet and social media platforms constitute important sites for both racist abuse and discrimination as well as anti-racist struggles and mobilisation. In light of these developments, this course pursues a twofold objective: on the one hand, it engages with phenomena highlighting the increasingly digital dimension of contemporary conjunctures of (anti-)racism. On the other hand, we will revisit some of the core debates and theoretical contributions on how to define, know and combat racism.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Net Criticism

Social Media and Affective Publics (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Anna Kalinina

Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 03.04.2023 - 07.07.2023 | HMS 139

Inhalt: The focus of the course is on affective publics (following the definition of Papacharissi, 2015, who largely builds on Massumi's work) that take on hybrid forms of expression and whose affective dimension is formed through and simultaneously informed by online forms of engagement, information dissemination, reporting, belonging, and civic participation. The course includes a mixture of theory and practice. In the theoretical part we are going to read and discuss texts on the core topics that are essential for the study of contentious expression online, these include: - contentious politics and contentious publicness - connective and collective logics of action - digital platforms as political actors - affect, affective publics - news and storytelling practices Selected texts work closely with case studies showcasing democratic as well as antidemocratic potentials of digitally mediated affective publics, such as online campaigns during the Arab Spring, and Q-Anon. In class we will aim to correlate the readings with the case studies, which then will translate into student projects where students will be asked to select a case study to work with. The practical part of the course will focus on the acquisition of the following skills: - identifying forms of contentious expression online - working with empirical evidence: collection, sorting criteria - building your research archive - content analysis - writing skills Potential questions for the seminar include: What kinds of public formations of civic engagement do online platforms support? How do networked platforms support affective processes? How is affect, in the sense of potential for action or inaction, built up with technological aid and particular platform affordances? How are these publics mobilized or immobilized through their information and communication practices? Main points of critique will consider the implications of social media platforms as political actors, as affective intensity "can both reflexively drive forward and entrap in constantly regenerated feedback loops" (Papacharissi, 2015). Specific points of critique may include the monopolization of contentious expression in commercially driven spaces, privacy concerns, radicalizatios, and limitations of algorithmic organization culture. For more details please take a look at the "Agenda" section in the course menu (the exact colloqium might be subject to chage, it's here to give you an approxiamte idea of topics we are going to tackle).

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Net Criticism