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Lehrveranstaltungen
Digital ID and the Transformation of State Power in the Digital Age (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Stephan Scheel
Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 14:00 - 17:00 | 09.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | HMS 211/215
Inhalt: Course Description and Overview We are currently experiencing the most significant shift in statist identification practices since the consolidation of the international passport regime in the 19th century. Digital identification devices like electronic eID cards providing remote access to government services, biometric databases, and blockchain-secured digital identity wallets are increasingly complementing, or even replacing, paper-based means of identification like passports, ID cards or birth certificates. This course focuses on two interrelated questions: First, how does the move towards digital identification devices reconfigure the relations and transactions between citizens and state authorities? And secondly, in how far may the growing use of digital identification technologies transform the modern nation-state by reconfiguring the meaning of central parameters of modern statecraft, such as citizenship, sovereignty, or territory? Overall Class Format In the first two sessions of the course on 11th and 25th April we will lay the conceptual and theoretical groundwork of the course and distribute topics for the presentations given by course participants in the remaining four block sessions. For the first two sessions participants have to submit a response paper on one of the core readings. In general, course participants are expected to prepare the mandatory core readings for each of the sessions to facilitate an informed discussion.The response papers and the presentation serve as preparatory work for the essay (10-12 pages) that participants have to submit in order to earn credits for the course.
Social Media and Social Movements (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Anna Kalinina
Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 09.04.2024 - 05.07.2024 | HMS 231/232
Inhalt: The focus of the course is on various forms of collective contestation 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: - affective publics - contentious action and contentious politics - platform critique - connective and cllective forms of action Selected texts work closely with case studies such showcasing the democratic and antidemocratic potential of digitally mediated affective publics. 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 - virtual ethography - 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, radicalization and feedback loops, and the limitations of algorithmic organization culture.