Ørecomm Seminar - guest lecture with John Downing
“Democratic Process, Social Movements, Their Media, and the Issue of Timescale”
John D.H. Downing will speak on this subject at an Ørecomm seminar on the 30th of November 2011, 14-16 hrs. at Roskilde University, room 43.3.29.
Social movement media have a very long history, albeit often overlooked or dismissed. Currently, they are in public focus as perhaps never before. A considerable emphasis in the present has been on digital social networking media, an emphasis which seems to recycle, yet again, the wondrous forecasts concerning new communication technologies which have continually resurfaced over the decades. Debate has consequently pivoted on a simple Either-Or: are these media a radically fresh opportunity, or merely coincidental – or worse, dangerous new technologies for surveillance agents?
This presentation will explore approaches that permit placing these newer media technologies and ‘legacy’ media in a certain symbiosis. It will also address the crucial but usually neglected issue of time-frame in discussions of media roles, democratization and the democratic deficit, and social movements. Transnational revolts arising during the year 2011 will be drawn upon for illustrations and arguments.
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