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NeMe: Monitorial Citizen: the ordinary witness
http://www.neme.org/events/monitorial-citizen
Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
09.12.2017

Videos available from the following talks at "Monitorial Citizen":

1/Stuart Allan (UK): Citizen Video Witnessing of Human Rights: The Case 
of WITNESS

Stuart Allan is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media 
and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) at Cardiff University, UK. Stuart has 
published widely in journalism, media and cultural studies. He has 
authored seven books, the most recent of which is Citizen Witnessing: 
Revisioning Journalism in Times of Crisis (Polity Press, 2013), and 
edited eleven others, including The Routledge Companion to News and 
Journalism (Routledge, 2012; revised edition) and Photojournalism and 
Citizen Journalism: Co-operation, Collaboration and Connectivity 
(Routledge, 2017). His research has also appeared in numerous 
peer-reviewed journal articles and contributions to edited collections, 
and has been translated into several languages. He serves on the 
editorial boards of fifteen international journals, including 
Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; Digital Journalism; New 
Media & Society; Media, War & Conflict; Communication, Culture & 
Critique; Text & Talk; Environmental Communication; Time & Society; 
Journalism & Communication Monographs; and Global Media and China.

2/James Bridle (UK): The Electromagnetic Border Zone
James Bridle is a British writer, artist, publisher and technologist 
currently based in Athens, Greece. His work covers the intersection of 
literature, culture and the network. As a journalist and essayist he has 
written for the Guardian, the White Review, Frieze, WIRED, ICON, Domus, 
Cabinet, the Atlantic, the New Stateman and many other publications, and 
between 2011 and 2015 wrote a regular column for the Observer newspaper 
on publishing and technology.

3/Nico Carpentier (BE): The dark sides of online participation
Nico Carpentier is Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the 
Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University. In addition, 
he holds two part-time positions, those of Associate Professor at the 
Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB 
– Free University of Brussels) and Docent at Charles University in 
Prague. Moreover, he is a Research Fellow at the Cyprus University of 
Technology and Loughborough University. His latest book is The 
Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media 
Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York). He is also the curator of 
Respublika! A Cypriot Community Media Arts festival 2017 – 2018.

4/Cynthia Carter (UK): Citizen Journalism and Children: Investigating 
Rights of Access, Opportunity and Voice
Cynthia Carter UK is a Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and 
Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, with research interests and 
expertise in news, journalism and gender; children, news and 
citizenship; and media violence. Her recent books include the Routledge 
Companion to Media and Gender (2014) and Current Perspectives in 
Feminist Media Studies (2013) and is currently working on a co-edited 
book for Routledge, Journalism, Gender and Power (with Linda Steiner and 
Stuart Allan). She is founding Co-Editor of Feminist Media Studies 
(Routledge) and serves on the editorial boards of numerous academic 
journals.

5/Joke Hermes (NL): On reconnecting with disengaged sceptics
Joke Hermes is a professor of applied research in Media, Culture and 
Citizenship at Inholland University, she teaches television studies at 
the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on gender, media, 
popular culture, research methodology and the creative industries. 
Recent work includes a study of independent workers in the creative 
industries; the hatred of Breaking Bad’s Skyler White in online audience 
discussion and white reluctance to give up on racist stereotype in the 
Dutch Black Pete controversy. She is currently developing participant 
design methods both for creative industries research more generally and 
intercultural media literacy research specifically, as well as a new 
book on watching ‘post’ television. She is founder and co-editor of the 
European journal of Cultural Studies.

6/Nicos Trimikliniotis (CY): Peace journalism, partitions and potential 
for overcoming austerity-and-chauvinist citizenship in divided Cyprus: 
Drawing on Cyprus and South Africa
Nicos Trimikliniotis is Professor of Sociology and Social Sciences, at 
the School of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia. He heads the team 
of expert of Cyprus team for the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU. He 
is also a practicing Barrister. He has researched on integration, 
citizenship, education, migration, racism, free movement of workers, EU 
law, discrimination and Labour Law. He is the National Expert for Cyprus 
for the European Labour Law Network. He is part of the international 
team on world deviance, which produced Gauging and Engaging Deviance 
1600-2000, Tulika press (2014) and its’ sequel Scripts of Defiance 
(2017). Selection of Publications: Mobile Commons, Migrant Digitalities 
and the Right to the City, Pivot, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; Beyond a 
Divided Cyprus: A State and Society in Transformation, Palgrave 
MacMillan, 2012; The Nation-State Dialectic and the State of Exception, 
Savalas, Athens, 2010; Rethinking the Free Movement of Workers: The 
European Challenges Ahead, Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2009.

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"Selecting in the new planetary humanity those characteristics that 
allow for its survival, removing the thin diaphragm that separates bad 
mediated advertising from the perfect exteriority that communicates only 
itself – this is the political task of our generation." (Giorgio 
Agamben, The Coming Community, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, p63)

Agamben’s statement implies a sense of urgency, a call to humanity to 
form a completely new engagement with politics, a shared uniting form of 
representation, the perfect exteriority. This may be seen as an 
unachievable ideal, even for informed citizens, especially in context to 
the current condition of uncertain notions of citizenship, disuniting 
nationalisms, refugees and internal displacement caused by incessant 
wars, migration caused by climate change and bots generating fake news. 
Corporate and government media’s insistence on defending a collapsing 
political, economic and social system has created reverberations of 
disillusionment and mistrust leading to a decline in conventional forms 
of political involvement. Nonetheless, we are witnessing an alternative 
form of participatory democracy and a higher level of engagement on the 
web by citizen bloggers, described by Michael Schudson as “monitorial 
citizens.” (Michael Schudson, Good Citizens and Bad History: Today’s 
Political Ideals in Historical Perspective, Communication Review 1, no. 
4, 2000) This ubiquitous presence of citizen journalism is in itself not 
without issues. Stuart Allan addresses these concerns and conceptualises 
social media outreach from ordinary citizens as “citizen witnessing.” 
(Stuart Allan, Citizen Witnessing: Revisioning Journalism in Times of 
Crisis, Polity Press, 2013) It is from both these scholars we take the 
title for this conference.

The growing demand for political and corporate clarity is a manifold 
topic of discussion on social media. The speed with which 
data-processing is conducted provides the citizen blogger with almost 
instant access to information but it also ensures that crucial issues 
may 
become evanescent. The acuity with which we address these issues 
requires serious attention in order to secure increased citizen 
participation, to expand and reinforce the demand for greater individual 
security, privacy and transparency of governance. Accomplishing these 
would provide tangible credibility for technology’s claim of 
democratising the world.


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Credits

Video and photography: Sakari Laurila
Coordination: NeMe and the Department of Communication and Internet 
Studies, Cyprus University of Technology (Helene Black, Angeliki Gazi, 
Yiannis Christidis, Yiannis Colakides).
Moderator: Corina Demetriou

State Machines: Art, Work and Identity in an Age of Planetary-Scale 
Computation
Focusing on how such technologies impact identity and citizenship, 
digital labour and finance, the project joins five experienced partners 
Aksioma (SI), Drugo More (HR), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network 
Cultures (NL) and NeMe (CY) together with a range of artists, curators, 
theorists and audiences. State Machines insists on the need for new 
forms of expression and new artistic practices to address the most 
urgent questions of our time, and seeks to educate and empower the 
digital subjects of today to become active, engaged, and effective 
digital citizens of tomorrow.

Funding
Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and the 
Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture

This project has been funded with the support from the European 
Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, 
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be 
made of the information contained therein.

Support
Medochemie, Sheila Pinkel, Institute of Network Cultures, Aksioma, 
Furtherfield



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