John Postill: "The formation of transient publics around contentious Internet issues has helped to both politicise technology and technologise politics"



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## John Postill: "The formation of transient publics around contentious Internet issues has helped to both politicise technology and technologise politics"

09/02/2017 |
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John Postill, lecturer at the Royal Institute of Technology in Melbourne (Australia), has opened the 8th Series of Lectures "Democracy Today", organized by the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Ethics and Democracy, with a lecture entitled "Democracy, Hybrid Media and Digital Rights: Anthropological comparison of four technopolitical cultures".

Postill, recognized for being one of the most original thinkers around the potential and transformations that accompany the political use of new digital tools called 'nerd politics', has explained that the rise of WikiLeaks, Anonymous, the Pirate Parties, Edward Snowden and other new techno-political actors has coincided with the global emergence of ‘hybrid media systems’ in which new and old media forms interact in complex ways.

He has approached the idea of a hybridly mediated space of ‘nerd politics’ through the case studies of four controversial internet bills: SOPA in the United States, Ley Sinde in Spain, Lei Azeredo in Brazil and UU ITE in Indonesia. "The formation of transient publics around these contentious issues has helped to both politicise technology and technologise politics in domestic and international contexts", has stated. He has also added that transient publics are paradoxically crucial to the maintenance of dispersed social spaces such as the space of 'nerd politics', particularly when they are able to swiftly reconfigure themselves into new publics, e.g. from from Ley Sinde to indignados.

Postill has ended with a reflection on the broader theoretical implications of the complementary concepts of ‘hybrid media space’ and ‘transient public’ for the understanding of digital media and political change in the contemporary era.

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