[ecrea] Conference (H)acktivism and Participation?

*(H)acktivism and Participation? On the Political Dimension of the Digital*

5th International Working Conference of the Commission for “Digitization in
Every Day Life” in the German Society for Cultural Anthropology and
Folklore Studies. 29th September – 1st October 2016.
Venue: Institute for European Ethnology/Cultural Science, Deutschhausstr.
3, 35032 Marburg, Germany

The conference aims to shed light on the significance of digitalization for
democratic participa-tion, activism and the political opinion forming
process. Especially in the early years of digital media use, the empowering
potential of the internet regarding the participation especially of
marginalized groups and the chances of societal changes were emphasized
(e.g. Rheingold 2003, Castells 2012). Others however stressed the danger of
radicalization (phenomena such as political segments of the public or
filter bubbles) and pointed to the concentration of power and
commercialization of digital infrastructures (e.g. Galloway/Thacker 2007).
At the moment political aspects of digitalization are negotiated within
discussions about “big data”, network neutrality, the retention of data and
other surveillance measures as a protection against terrorism. Starting
from these discursivations, the conference aims to raise anew the issue of
the political aspect of the digital. Based on Urich Bröckling’s and Robert
Feustel’s (2012) definition, in this context the political is defined as
processes of societal negotiation relating to procedures and norms, and
characterized by elements of dissent, conflict, event and disruption.
The conference will focus on the following three topics:

1. Digital practices and activism: The connection between the usage and
appropriation of digital infrastructures and the organization and
discourses within movements as well as the modes of political action has to
be considered. This concerns potentials and implications of flashmobs and
online-supported forms of protest as well as the possibility of resistant
practices (agency) of the hacktivist community to counter phenomena like
digital surveillance.

2. Constitution of Public Spheres. The question arises how the perception
of the political is (re)configured (e.g. through norms like transparency
and sharing) and how processes of opinion formation and the development of
power of interpretation are influenced by the personalization of web
content, the dominance of certain service providers and the information
flow within social networks, forums and blogs. Effects like tendencies of
standardization vs. pluralization, sub- and counter publics will be taken
into account.

3. Participation and Inclusion: the potential consequences of the usage of
digital media on the mode of citizens’ political participation concern on
one hand the access to knowledge and the role of free software, on the
other potential mechanisms of inclusion vs. exclusion inscribed into
digital infrastructures (“digital divide”). How hierarchies constitute
themselves along tech-nological knowledge and key positions and how the
participation of citizens can be made possible through the usage of digital
measures of communication will be discussed on the conference.


Programm/Program

Thursday, 29.09.2016

16:00h-16:30h    Begrüßung und Einführung/Welcome and Introduction: Marion
Näser-Lather

16:30h-17:30h    Keynote
Christopher Kelty (Los Angeles):  Hacking, Leaking, Breaching:
Participation as experience, as risk, and as sabotage

17:30h-18:00h    Pause/Break

18:00h-20:00h    Session 1: Surveillance and Control
Ned Rossiter (Sydney): Sovereign Media and the Ruins of a Logistical Future
Barbara Frischling (Graz): KÖRPER_WISSEN_MACHT. Digitale
Tracking-Technologien im Alltag. Überwachung und Selbstoptimierung oder
Empowerment durch „mindfulness“?
Oliver Leistert (Paderborn): Die Kontrolle des Protests - zur Zurichtung
von Protest durch Maschinen
Barbara Büttner, Jörn Lamla, Carsten Ochs, Fabian Pittroff, Markus Uhlmann
(Kassel): Die Privacy-Arena: Privatheit, Vertrauen und Demokratie in den
sozialen Kämpfen um die Verfasstheit der digitalen Welt

Ab 20:00h    Empfang/Reception


Friday, 30.09.2016

09:00h-10:00h    Plenarvortrag/Plenary Session
Graham Meikle (London):  Citizenship in the Age of Social Media

10:00h-10:30h    Pause/Break

10:30h-12:30h    Session 2: Citizenship and Participation
Wolfgang Sützl (Athens/Ohio):  Teilen und Teilnehmen. Über das Politische
im digitalen Medium
Julia Tiemann (Göttingen): Akteur-Sein in politischen
Entscheidungsprozessen: Politische Partizipation im digitalen Zeitalter im
ethnografischen Vergleich zwischen Island und Deutschland
Clemens Apprich (Lüneburg): „Ja, ich bin paranoid – aber bin ich paranoid
genug?“ Digitale Medien zwischen Partizipation, Publizität und Paranoia
Urmila Goel (Frankfurt/Oder): Im Feed untergegangen

12:30h-14:00h    Mittagspause/Lunch Break

14:00h-16:00h    Session 3: Discourses and Practices of (H)activism
Joss Hands (Newcastle): Doing Things with Things: Gadgets and the
Thingification of Activism
David Bozzini (Graz): “Going dark” vs. the “golden age of surveillance.”:
hackers’ resistance and the politics of cryptography after Snowden
Marija Martinovic (Graz): Video Activism as a Performative Political
Practice of the Women's Movement in Postso-cialist Serbia.
Ove Sutter (Bonn): „Wir sagen Moin!“ On- und Offline-Produktionen von
Lokalität in der zivilgesellschaftli-chen Fluchthilfe

16:00h-16:30h    Pause/Break

16:30h-18:00h    Workshop: Science meets Activists
Mit: Stefan Körner (Piratenpartei), Fiona Krakenbürger (Aktivistin der Open
Data Commu-nity), Eva Provedel (Mitglied der Frauenbewegung “Se Non Ora
Quando”)

18:00h-20:00h    Kommissionssitzung der Kommission „Digitalisierung im
Alltag“ in der Deutschen Gesel schaft für Volkskunde

Ab 20:00h    Abendessen/non-hosted Conference Dinner


Saturday, 01.10.2016

09:00h-10:30h    Session 4: Web Communities
Eric Kluitenberg (Amsterdam): Tactical Media
Roman Knipping Sorokin (Hamburg): Radikalisierung Jugendlicher über das
Internet?
Susanne Maurer (Marburg): (Politische) Bildung im Netz? Schwierigkeiten und
besondere Potentiale der Entwicklung kritischen Urteilsvermögens im World
Wide Web

10:30h-11:00h    Pause/Break

11:00h-11:55h    Abschlussdiskussion/Panel discussion:  Gertraud Koch
(Hamburg), Klaus Schönberger (Klagenfurt), Bernd Jürgen Warneken (Tübingen)

11:55-12:00h    Closing Remarks


Anmeldung unter/please register on:
http://www.goingdigital.de/arbeitstagungen/arbeitstagung-2016/anmeldung-registration/

Bis zum 29.07. können noch Sonderangebote bei Marburger Hotels genutzt
werden (siehe
http://www.goingdigital.de/arbeitstagungen/arbeitstagung-2016/unterkunft-accommodation/unterkunft/).

For special prizes of accomodations (applicable until 29th of july) see
http://www.goingdigital.de/arbeitstagungen/arbeitstagung-2016/unterkunft-accommodation/accommodation/
.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen
Marion Näser-Lather



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