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<I>The Internet as Politicising Instrument</I>. <BR>
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This issue of <I>Transformations</I> presents essays responding to Marcus Breen’s recent book <I>Uprising: The Internet’s Unintended Consequences</I>. 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 “if 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?” (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. <BR>
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THE INTERNET AS POLITICIZING INSTRUMENT<BR>
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The Internet and Privatism: reconstructing the monitor space.<BR>
Marcus Breen
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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The Digital Hysterias of Decentralisation, Entrepreneurship and Open Community <BR>
Fidele Vlavo<BR>
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>From Ideology to Algorithm: the Opaque Politics of the Internet <BR>
Emit Snake-Beings<BR>
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“Walls of seeing”: Protest surveillance, embodied boundaries, and counter-surveillance at Occupy Sydney <BR>
Frances Shaw<BR>
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Gendered Uprisings: Desire, Revolution, and the Internet’s <BR>
Karyl E. Ketchum<BR>
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Analysing the intersections between technology, performativity, and politics: the case of local citizen dialogue <BR>
Gustav Lidén and Katarina Giritli Nygren<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#008000">Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
General Editor Transformations <a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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English, Media Studies and Art History<BR>
University of Queensland<BR>
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Australia 4072<BR>
+ 61 (7) 3365 2593<BR>
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