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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 | ||
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* 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 15:47, 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.