Annemarie Fischer: The Multilogue of Human Rights
Channel: GIRES-Global Research Institute
Date: 2021-05-27

FULL TITLE: “All human beings are equal”, but why are some global issues more global(ly transmitted) than Others?

Annemarie Fischer obtained her Ph.D. in 2020/2021 at the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY) in New York, USA. She has also received her Magistra Artium in German Studies, Journalism, and Eastern European Sciences at the Universität Leipzig, and her Master of Arts in Political Science at Binghamton University.
Her research project began as an intern at the United Nations headquarters at the then Department of Public Information, now Department of Global Communications, in New York City. Supported by
ethnographic interviews at the United Nations, this dissertation explores factual narratology in cyberspace and the key question of global communication(s): Why are some global issues more global(ly transmitted) than Others? Her research areas include factual narratology, journalism, the exploration and the integration of the global in the center and on the periphery, human rights, the global media, and virtual pedagogy.

ABSTRACT
My presentation traces the pathways and dead ends of global narratives on the internet. My interdisciplinary project combines the fields of narratology and Comparative Literature (and World Literature) with global communication(s), supported by ethnographic interviews conducted at the United Nations headquarters at the then Department of Public Information, now Department of Global Communications, in New York.
My project explores why some global issues become more global(ly distributed) than Others: human rights, climate change, war and peace, migration, health care and pandemics. International organizations function as stakeholders for the global communication(s) framework. The paradox is that the world has access to information, but the virtual availability of information on the internet does not translate into international action in the (corpo)real world.
All citizens are global, but some citizens are more global than Others. Based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), half of the global citizenry is currently active online, while the Other half is left out on the digital divide.
My (im)permeability theory of global narratives in cyberspace explores how global awareness occurs locally, nationally, regionally, and globally. My approach combines the paradigmatic groundwork of Ludwik Fleck, the systemic approaches of Immanuel Wallerstein, and the factual narratological approach of Marie-Laure Ryan and Monika Fludernik, combined with the rule of rumour by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION
"Humanitarian Organizations: (Hi)Stories, Impact and Challenges"
Organizer: GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship  
Date: 20-21 February 2021
Place: Amsterdam (Virtual)
More information: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/humanitarian-organizations-histories-impact-and-challenges/