{"id":11942,"date":"2010-05-18T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2673"},"modified":"2010-05-18T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:41:07","slug":"monochrom-sigint-2010-the-medium-is-the-messiah-on-the-implicit-ideology-of-media-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/monochrom-sigint-2010-the-medium-is-the-messiah-on-the-implicit-ideology-of-media-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"monochrom @ SIGINT 2010: “The Medium is the Messiah: On the implicit ideology of media activism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Apunkt Schneider will give a talk at SIGINT 2010: “The Medium is the Messiah. On the implicit ideology of media activism”<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tIn the media age nearly all forms of political interventionism show
\n\tan inevitable tendency to become media activism. This is to say that the
\n\tactivists\u2019 focus has shifted from what could be considered \u201cthe
\n\tproblem\u201d to the acquirement and the (adequate) use of media. Hence the
\n\tmedium seems to have fully become the message of all those shiny happy
\n\tmedia activists out there.<\/p>\n

\tMost of them seem to believe that media is something capable of
\n\tredeeming us all from capitalist doom. Thus they are awaiting each new
\n\tmedia as the saviour that was promised to arrive some day. Remember the
\n\tWeb 2.0 hype, that thing about grassrooting the web through new forms of
\n\tparticipation and free information\u2026? Now you got the idea. You always
\n\tlook stupid when the new media hype has been turned in. Yet, if we look
\n\tat the history of bourgeois society nothing of it seems to be new. Since
\n\tthe invention of the principle of publicity we have always been offered
\n\tmedia as a placebo for political change. In this lecture we are going
\n\tto find out what is just bourgeois ideology about the media hype to
\n\tdistinguish from it what the real potential of the media could be on an
\n\tinterventionist agenda. And we are going to learn how to look slightly
\n\tless silly when the next media hype will be over.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May 24, 2010, 3 PM. KOMED, Mediapark K\u00f6ln, as part of SIGINT conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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