Swedish Pirates, Anonymous Trolls, and the Outlines of an Internet Politics (April 14)
InfoStructure Lecture
Swedish Pirates, Anonymous Trolls, and the Outlines of an Internet Politics
Julian Dibbell
George A. Miller Visiting Professor, College of Media
Abstract:
Repurposing the technology critic Langdon Winner's famous question "Do
artifacts have politics?", this talk asks: Does the Internet? And if
so, what do those politics look like? Two case studies suggest themselves: That of the Swedish Pirate Party (an officially registered political party built almost entirely on a platform of radical copyright reform) and that of Project Chanology (an entirely informal protest movement targeting the Church of Scientology). Last year I published a feature article in Wired magazine about Project Chanology, and I am currently in the midst of reporting an article on the Pirate Party for the New York Times Magazine. I'll talk about what I've learned about these two movements and about what they imply for the shape and limits of Internet-based political change.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Coordinated Science Laboratory, B02
1308 W. Main St. Urbana, IL
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