[liberationtech] Inauguration lecture Christian Fuchs: Social Media and the Public Sphere

[Marisol Sandoval]

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Am 08.01.14 23:44, schrieb James Losey:
> Hi Marisol,
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> Thanks for sharing. Will a video be available?
>
> Best,
> James
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> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Marisol Sandoval 
> <marisol.sandoval at uti.at <mailto:marisol.sandoval at uti.at>> wrote:
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>     Social Media and the Public Sphere
>     Inauguration Lecture
>     Christian Fuchs
>     Wed. Feb 19, 2013, 18:00
>     Univ. of Westminster, Regent Street Campus
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>     More information is available here:
>     http://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/inaugural-lectures/2014/social-media-and-the-public-sphere
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>     Registration is requested and possible here:
>     https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-lecture-series-2013-2014-social-media-and-the-public-sphere-tickets-7899322085
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>     Social media has become a key term in Media and Communication
>     Studies and public discourse for characterising platforms such as
>     Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Wordpress,
>     Blogspot, Weibo, Pinterest, Foursquare and Tumblr. This lecture
>     will discuss the implications of social media for power structures
>     in society, the economy and politics.The lecture will first
>     discuss the question "What is social about social media?".
>     Providing answers requires a social theory understanding of what
>     it means to be social. The lecture will explore different concepts
>     of the social and relate them to the realm of the media.Social
>     media are an expression of the tendency that in contemporary
>     society boundaries become liquid. The distinctions between the
>     private and the public, play and labour (playbour, digital
>     labour), work and leisure, production and consumption
>     (prosumption), individual and collective action, online and
>     offline, networking and autonomy, spatial distance and
>     co-presence, anonymity and knowledge, presence and absence,
>     appearance and disappearance, and visibility and invisibility, are
>     blurring. This lecture will discuss what risks and opportunities
>     these changes imply for society. Many political and academic
>     discussions about the implications of social media for society are
>     concentrated on the question of whether social media enhance or
>     endanger various dimensions of the public sphere. Whereas some say
>     that social media make the economy more democratic and have been
>     used as tools of revolutions and democratisation ('revolution
>     2.0', 'Twitter/Facebook revolution'), others hold that social
>     media are first and foremost instruments of control and commerce.
>     The lecture will engage with Habermas' concept of the public
>     sphere and discuss social media's variety of implications for the
>     structural transformation of the public sphere.Whereas we are
>     accustomed to the idea of public service broadcasting, an
>     understanding of how a public service internet could look and be
>     advanced is largely missing. This lecture wants to contribute to
>     the public discussion of how the social dimension of the internet
>     and the media can serve the public interest, the concept of a
>     public service internet and how ideas for specific organisation,
>     policy and funding models could look like.
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