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5 Oct 2011 20:00
Location: Lawickse Allee 13 Wageningen
Organisation: Studium Generale

What happens when the real world is just another version of yourself?


Political identity and Social Media  -  Users Between Consumption & Civic Activism
Dr. Mirko Tobias Schaefer (Utrecht University)

When we think of social media and political identity of users we think of individuals launching their voices and images from inside the Arab Spring protests; not  Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook addressing 550 million users in a unique posting urging them to vote 'on the documents that should govern  Facebook'. Social media users have turned into 'social formations' similar to societies and social media are evolving our understanding of public sphere. But how do social media platforms themselves shape political identity and participation of those who use them? Mirko Tobias Schaefer (New Media &  Digital Culture, Utrecht University) explores how commercial and non-profit web platform providers such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube among others organise interaction with their individual users, regulate their  activities and 'shape' their collective existence touching the heart of individuals' self-determination and political identity.

Learn more about Mirko Tobias Schaefer 
 For more on social media analysis, content policing etc. see The Other Side of Social Media 

More lectures on:

  • October 11th: Who decides who I am online? - Arnold Roosendaal (LLM MPhil; Fennell Roosendaal Onderzoek en Advies)
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