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* plus annotations written from a personal point of view, to situate the research within my own context and practice
* plus annotations written from a personal point of view, to situate the research within my own context and practice


==== Key topics: ====
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* Alternative ways of sharing knowledge, and their social aspects (“We publish to find comrades!”)
* Alternative ways of sharing knowledge, and their social aspects (“We publish to find comrades!”)
* Weaponization of the internet, propaganda wars in the comments section
* Weaponization of the internet, propaganda wars in the comments section


==== Thesis statements ====
==== Thesis statements ====
* Memetic dialogues have become an important form of alternative political discourse in Indonesia, offering new avenues of connection for young people in the nation’s urban centres.
* Memetic dialogues have become an important form of alternative political discourse in Indonesia, offering new avenues of connection for young people in the nation’s urban centres.
* For a country whose mainstream media is becoming more and more sensitive to dissent, meme culture, with its polyvocal and participatory quality, represents a valuable space for experimentation and commentary.
* For a country whose mainstream media is becoming more and more sensitive to dissent, meme culture, with its polyvocal and participatory quality, represents a valuable space for experimentation and commentary.

Revision as of 14:47, 4 October 2018

04.10.2018 Thesis Outline Draft 1

Format:

2) An analytical essay exploring related artistic, theoretical, historical and critical issues and practices that inform your practice, without necessarily referring to your work directly.

  • plus annotations written from a personal point of view, to situate the research within my own context and practice

Key topics:

  • Social & networked media as democratic or emancipatory tools
  • Freedom of speech / freedom of connection / freedom of religion
  • The rise of alternative media / pop culture and its role in contemporary nation-building
  • (Self-)censorship, cultural regulation and revisionism (“New media, Old wounds”)
  • Meme culture as a mode of civic engagement, a way of imaging dissent
  • Archiving as an active political practice (and post-colonial tool?)
  • Alternative ways of sharing knowledge, and their social aspects (“We publish to find comrades!”)
  • Weaponization of the internet, propaganda wars in the comments section

Thesis statements

  • Memetic dialogues have become an important form of alternative political discourse in Indonesia, offering new avenues of connection for young people in the nation’s urban centres.
  • For a country whose mainstream media is becoming more and more sensitive to dissent, meme culture, with its polyvocal and participatory quality, represents a valuable space for experimentation and commentary.