[csaa-forum] new special issue - Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency - Political Struggles over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
nico carpentier
nico.carpentier at vub.ac.be
Wed Jan 31 18:34:29 ACST 2018
((Apologies for cross-posting))
Special Issue:
Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency
Political Struggles over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
Edited by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier
COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI
JOURNAL OF MEDIA, PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURAL STUDIES
1 January-April 2018
http://www.vitaepensiero.it/scheda-fascicolo_contenitore_digital/nico-carpentier-vaia-doudaki/comunicazioni-sociali-2018-1-power-multidirectionality-and-contingencypolitical-struggles-over-representationdecision-making-and-technology-001200_2018_0001-345679.html
This special issue, focusing on different case studies and drawing from
different examples, addresses these issues of political struggle,
contextualized by multidirectionality and contingency. Using different
starting and entry points (based, inter alia, on journalism studies,
organizational communication, game studies, discourse theory, visual
communication), the collection of articles included in this special
issue sheds light on the logics of political struggle. In particular,
this special issue allows reflecting on the distinction between
struggles over and struggles through, very much in line with Plekhanov’s
distinction between the means and aims of political struggle, and his
argumentation for the alignment of both in socialist strategy14. The
articles in this special issue demonstrate that struggle can, on the one
hand, be associated with conscious acts of re/appropriation or dominance
over specific issues, discourses, positions (struggle over), but, on the
other hand, also with the means, tactics, strategies through which
struggles are waged (struggle through). Furthermore, the special issue
also allows showing that there are different ‒ albeit interconnected ‒
fields over which political struggles are waged, and that there are
different mechanisms through which political struggles are organized.
The collection offers a snap-shot of the complexity of political
struggles, the fields over which the struggles are waged, and the
mechanisms that are used to wage these struggles. Even if many other
fields and mechanisms can be distinguished, this special issue hopefully
provides an already rich overview of the different fields and mechanisms
that play a role in political struggles. Moreover, and even more
importantly, this special issue shows the omnipresence and variety of
political struggle in contemporary society, and the relevance of this
concept for the study of social phenomena in the 21st century
Table of Contents:
An Introduction to Power, Multidirectionality and Contingency. Political
Struggles over Representation, Decision-Making and Technology
Nico Carpentier & Vaia Doudaki
When the Wrong Kind of Authority Neutralizes Journalism: Cold War
Enmity, Journalism and the US Presidential Race
Barbie Zelizer
Change Processes, Practices of Authority and Communication: Authority
Negotiations between Managers and Employees in Two Medical Companies
Therese Monstad
Deconstructing Nationalist Assemblages: A Visual Essay on the Greek
Cypriot Memorials Related to Two Violent Conflicts in 20th Century Cyprus
Nico Carpentier
De-Naturalizing Antagonistic Nationalism through an Academic
Intervention. The Reception of Two Photography Exhibitions on the
Memorialization of the Cyprus Problem
Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki, Yiannis Christidis & Fatma Nazli Koksal
Digital Disconnect and Assemblages of Power: Exploring Technology
Non-use in the Age of the Post-digital
Claes Thorén & Mats Edenius
Between Global Competition, Marketing, Deviant Play, and Cheating:
High-End Raiding in ‘World of Warcraft’
Patrick Prax
Interpellated Citizens. Suggested Subject Positions in a Deliberation
Process on Health Care Reimbursement
Mathieu Berger & Benjamin De Cleen
Lurkers, Opponents and the Struggle for Recognition: Accounts from
Active Participants in Online Political Discussions
Jakob Svensson
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RESPUBLIKA!
A Cypriot community media arts festival
http://respublika.neme.org/
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Out now:
A VISIT TO THE MIRROR PALACE OF DEMOCRACY
https://vimeo.com/249194905
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THE DISCURSIVE-MATERIAL KNOT
Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation
http://nicocarpentier.net/dmk
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CYPRUS AND ITS CONFLICTS
Representations, Materialities, and Cultures
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/DoudakiCyprus
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Kyrkogårdsgatan 10, 753 13 Uppsala, Sweden
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Free University of Brussels
& Charles University in Prague
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