[ecrea] Transformations Issue 23 now released

Transformations announces the release of Issue 23

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/The Internet as Politicising Instrument/.


This issue of /Transformations/ presents essays responding to Marcus 
Breen's recent book /Uprising: The Internet's Unintended Consequences/. 
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.


THE INTERNET AS POLITICIZING INSTRUMENT

The Internet and Privatism: reconstructing the monitor space.
Marcus Breen

The Digital Hysterias of Decentralisation, Entrepreneurship and Open 
Community
Fidele Vlavo

> From Ideology to Algorithm: the Opaque Politics of the Internet
Emit Snake-Beings

"Walls of seeing": Protest surveillance, embodied boundaries, and 
counter-surveillance at Occupy Sydney
Frances Shaw

Gendered Uprisings: Desire, Revolution, and the Internet's
Karyl E. Ketchum

Analysing the intersections between technology, performativity, and 
politics: the case of local citizen dialogue
Gustav Lidén and Katarina Giritli Nygren



Dr. Warwick Mules
General Editor  Transformations http://www.transformationsjournal.org/


English, Media Studies and Art History
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland
Australia 4072
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