User:Tash/grad thesis outline1

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 connection & speech in Indonesia, and the media tactics which support them The rise of informal media / pop culture and its role in contemporary politics Censorship and cultural regulation in shaping collective memory (“New media, Old wounds”) Archiving as an active political practice (and post-colonial tool?) Alternative ways of sharing knowledge, and their social aspects (“We publish to find comrades!”)