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Publics, counter-publics, and more recently networked publics – are concepts fundamental to democracy, cultural and political participation. Digital communication provides additional frameworks for the emergence of different kinds of publics and the aim of this course is to account for these environments and frame their cultural and political potentials –or lack thereof. Do digital communications enhance cultural and political engagement and participation? How do networked publics emerge within different media environment, such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? Do digital communications fundamentally change the relationship of consumption and production? Do these forms for prosumption/produsage generate processes of emancipation or colonization? Is it marketization?; deliberation?; emancipation?; or just communication for the sake of communication?
Amongst topics and concepts that will be theorised, exemplified and discussed are the network society, digital public spheres, cultural-, media-, and communication policies, remix cultures, intellectual property, digital labour, DIY cultures, social media, online protest cultures, digital dissemination within cultural institutions, gaming and digital arts. The objective is to detect and analyse how publics, counter-publics, and networked publics are constituted within and conditioned by these digital media environments.
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