jakob epart11
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Presentation at the E-PART 2011 conference, Delft the NetherlandsTRANSCRIPT
Jakob Svensson
Karlstad UniversitySweden
Power and Participation in Digital Late Modernity
Towards a Network Logic
The question of power
Starting point
New media is supposed to flatten out governance hierarchies and distributing power evenly (Rheingold, Shirky, Bruns et.c.)
Media Logics
Eurovision Song Contest ?
Party Convention ?
What is new about new media?
Interactivity/ social networking instead of broadcasting
Power exists in Networks
It is almost as if social networking sites push us to
continous self presentation, to connect with peers and to update
Discipline
QuickTime och en-dekomprimerare
krävs för att kunna se bilden.
Identity and Reflexivity
Social Networks as Looking Glasses
To see our selves through
Late modern indiviudalisation is not only about the liberation of the individual from institutons of modernity - but also a demand to supply our life stories, to import our selves into our biographies thorugh our own actions (Beck & Beck-
Gernsheim)
Life Politics (Giddens)
QuickTime och en-dekomprimerare
krävs för att kunna se bilden.
Reveal our opinions and sympaties
