[csaa-forum] Transformations Issue 23 now released

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations announces the release of Issue 23

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/


The Internet as Politicising Instrument.


This issue of Transformations presents essays responding to Marcus Breen¹s
recent book Uprising: The Internet¹s Unintended Consequences. Breen asks
whether the Internet can become a politicising instrument for the new online
proletariat ­ the individualised users isolated by the monitor screen. He
asks ³if the proletariat can use the Internet, is it freed from the moral
and social constraints of the past that were imposed by conventional media
and its regulation of the public space?² (32) This question raises further
issues. Does this freedom translate into an emancipatory politics where the
proletariat is able to pursue its own ends, or does it simply reproduce the
power relation between the user-subject and the Internet and those who
control and manage it. The articles in this issue respond in various ways to
these questions.  


THE INTERNET AS POLITICIZING INSTRUMENT

The Internet and Privatism: reconstructing the monitor space.
Marcus Breen 
The Digital Hysterias of Decentralisation, Entrepreneurship and Open
Community 
Fidele Vlavo

>From Ideology to Algorithm: the Opaque Politics of the Internet
Emit Snake-Beings

³Walls of seeing²: Protest surveillance, embodied boundaries, and
counter-surveillance at Occupy Sydney
Frances Shaw

Gendered Uprisings: Desire, Revolution, and the Internet¹s
Karyl E. Ketchum

Analysing the intersections between technology, performativity, and
politics: the case of local citizen dialogue
Gustav Lidén and Katarina Giritli Nygren



Dr. Warwick Mules
General Editor  Transformations
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/


English, Media Studies and Art History
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland
Australia 4072
+ 61 (7) 3365 2593






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