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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.

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 * 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
+* Social & networked media as democratic or emancipatory tools
-Freedom of connection & speech in Indonesia, and the media tactics which support them
+* Freedom of speech / freedom of connection / freedom of religion
-The rise of informal media / pop culture and its role in contemporary politics
+* The rise of alternative media / pop culture and its role in contemporary nation-building
-Censorship and cultural regulation in shaping collective memory  (“New media, Old wounds”)
+* (Self-)censorship, cultural regulation and revisionism (“New media, Old wounds”)
-Archiving as an active political practice (and post-colonial tool?)
+* Meme culture as a mode of civic engagement, a way of imaging dissent
-Alternative ways of sharing knowledge, and their social aspects (“We publish to find comrades!”)
+* 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.