16421 Proseminar

SoSe 17: Mapping Digital Utopia. Internet-Archives of 90s

Natalia Konradova

Kommentar

Having been developed by engineers and scientists to facilitate technical information exchange, the Internet soon turned out to be an important social and cultural phenomenon. From the outset of the Internet era its users began to imagine a new society, a new culture, and a new future that were supposed to be based on this new technology. The reappearance of utopian thinking in the 90s is all the more important considering the vanishing of the utopian genre from literature in the mid-20th century. The digital utopia of grassroots democracy, unregulated cyberspace, or unlimited creative opportunities existed for a mere decade. While meeting new challenges it followed its literary predecessors and soon transformed itself into a dystopia of total control, surveillance, manipulation, and commercialisation. The study of the short history of utopian Internet is closely related to the problem of online archives, which were shaped according to different rules and under different circumstances. The seminar is structured as a collective research project and includes both the study of theoretical issues and practical research. We will explore and analyze theoretical approaches to definitions of digital utopia and dystopia, digital archiving, and digital temporality. Participants will be encouraged to find, gather and compare different utopian ideas and images of the digital future as part of their research practice during the seminar. Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Ernst Wolfgang: Digital Memory and the Archive in Electronic Mediations, Volume 39, University of Minnesota Press, 2014; Jacques Derrida: Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, University of Chicago Press, 1998; Joshua Cowles and Druscilla Scribner: The Internet as Utopia: Reality, Virtuality, and Politics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Oshkosh Scholar. Volume IV, November 2009. pp. 81-89. Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben: Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997 Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mi, 19.04.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 26.04.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 03.05.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 10.05.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 17.05.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 24.05.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 31.05.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 07.06.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 14.06.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 21.06.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 28.06.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 05.07.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 12.07.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

Mi, 19.07.2017 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Natalia Konradova

Räume:
JK 31/239 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)

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