Программа семинара, на котором я собираюсь говорить о том, как Рунет компенсирует недостаток «новостей» на российском телевидении и в печатных СМК. Я убрала описание сессий, посвященных печати и радио, но оставила полностью разделы об Интернете.

К. L.-К. 

From Samizdat to Blogging: Globalization and New Forms of Political Expression

Organized by: International Alternative Culture Center (IACC); OSA Archivum, CEU Curriculum Resource Center; Open Society Institute HESP-ReSET Program “Alternative Culture Beyond Borders” / “Visual Studies of Immedia”; CEU Center for Communication and Media Studies (CMCS).

INTERSESSION WORKSHOP

Feb 20-21, 2008, Budapest

Program.

Wednesday, 20 February

10:00 -11:30 Session I: PRINT

moderator: Olga Zaslavskaya (OSA) / Wolfgang Eichwede (FSO-Bremen)

12:00-13:30 Session II: RADIO

moderators: Marsha Siefert (CEU); Katie Coyer (CEU)

15:00– 17:30 Session III: TRUST

moderator: Jessie Labov (Stanford)

18:00-19:30 KEYNOTE: Hossein Derakshan, AKA Hoder

Thursday, 21 February

9:30 – 11:30 Session IV: INTER/ACTIVE/NET: POLITICS OF/ON the NET

moderator: Imre Szeman (McMaster U)

The advent of the Internet was initially viewed by both theorists and activists in an

utopic fashion. It was imagined that the spread of electronic communications would

bring about the long hoped for eclipse of national-cultural divisions; that political and

alternative communities could more freely connect not only with one another but with

the public at large; and that capitalism itself would be threatened by the new forms of

identity and subjectivity brought into existence by the Net. Twenty years into the life of

Internet, these hopes have given way to a more cautious, complex view of the Net and

its alternative politics. If we look past the commercialism of parts of the Internet, there is

certainly a plethora of alternative positions advocated on the web from a wide-range of

perspectives. However, with some exceptions, these political energies have not resulted

in broad-scale political change; if anything, capital seems to have extensified (complete

proletarianization of labour) and intensified (biopower) its grip on earth. This

roundtable which consider the role that the Internet has played, continue to plays and

will play in the future for forms of alternative cultural and political expression.

12:00- 13:30 Session V: INTERNET ACTIVISM

moderators: Bodo Balazs (MOKK), Arne Hintz (CEU)

This roundtable would look at the phenomenon of community-building vs political

mobilization on the Web, focusing on the differences between online practices which

simply build communities and those that lead to political change. The survey would go

beyond the well-known cases of authoritarian states where political opposition is

censored/repressed: it would include the example of a German group subject to

censorship because of accusations of terrorist practices, and other alternative media

groups who have been under attack, or shut down in Western Europe for similar

reasons? This roundtable would examine as well the issue of neutralization: do practices

such as blogging work as a “release valve” for political expression that would otherwise

take a more active form?

15:00– 17:30 Session VI: FREEDOM

moderator: Barbara Falk (CDC)

This roundtable focuses on the nature of freedom and political action in online

communities. What kind of freedom to choose does access to the internet allow? If

coalition building was the basis for all successful actions in Central and Eastern Europe,

is this possible on the web (and is being a member of a coalition a kind of virtual

community anyway)? Can online communities be a source of liberation/freedom for

those in social isolation? Is there a difference between turning to the internet for

exchange of information (as we see in political crises where media is shut down, i.e.

Pakistan, Burma, or on a longer-term basis in China) and using it for freedom of

expression in a censored environment (blogging in Iran)?

 K.L.-K. (Katya Lapina-Kratasyuk)