Jakob Svensson

Karlstad UniversitySweden

Power and Participation in Digital Late Modernity

Towards a Network Logic

The question of power

Starting point

New media is supposed to flatten out governance hierarchies and distributing power evenly (Rheingold, Shirky, Bruns et.c.)

Media Logics

Eurovision Song Contest ?

Party Convention ?

What is new about new media?

Interactivity/ social networking instead of broadcasting

Power exists in Networks

It is almost as if social networking sites push us to

continous self presentation, to connect with peers and to update

Discipline

QuickTime och en-dekomprimerare

krävs för att kunna se bilden.

Identity and Reflexivity

Social Networks as Looking Glasses

To see our selves through

Late modern indiviudalisation is not only about the liberation of the individual from institutons of modernity - but also a demand to supply our life stories, to import our selves into our biographies thorugh our own actions (Beck & Beck-

Gernsheim)

Life Politics (Giddens)

QuickTime och en-dekomprimerare

krävs för att kunna se bilden.

Reveal our opinions and sympaties

Thank you for listening!

jakob.svensson@kau.se

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