網絡政治:個人、群體與衝突
Cyber-politics: Individuals, Communities, and Contestations
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A 18:30–19:20 | 網絡政治:個人、群體與衝突 F106A 3 節連堂 |
B 19:30–20:20 | |
C 20:30–21:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
Introduction/ 概述 This course connects the analysis of the technical features and design of digital and information-communication technologies (ICTs) to selfhood, social norms, meanings, and contestations. It encourages students to 1) look critically at our relations to existing technologies and 2) imagine creatively how they could be different. We read recent texts in new media studies with reference to the cultural forms and workings of ICTs such as search engines, tags, like buttons, filters, and algorithm, etc. We examine such technologies in the contexts of everyday life, work, consumption, participation, affect, and identity. 本課程把數碼及資訊傳播科技的技術及設計與自我構成、社會規範、意義及衝突連結起來,並鼓勵學生(1)批判地看待我們與科技的關係;(2) 創造性地想象如何扭轉這些關係。我們會閱讀新媒體研究的重要文本,聚焦在資訊傳播科技的文化形成及運作,包括搜尋器、標籤、點「讚」、過濾器、演算法等等,並放在日常生活、工作、消費、參與、情感與身份認同作考察。 Aim/目標 -Enabling students to produce informed and theoretical accounts of the technical workings and the logics of ICTs in the everyday life; -Strengthening students’ ability to analyze how digital communication technologies relate to the cultural context; -Offering analytical tools for students to explain the ethical and political aspects of digital communication technologies and to make a new sense of the meanings of being “netizens”; -Inspiring students to critically examine the creative design of ICTs and the deviant practices of use. -令學生能充份地及理論性地闡述在日常生活中的資訊傳播科技運作邏輯; -加強學生分析數碼傳播科技與文化語境的關係; -為學生提供分析性工具,解釋數碼傳播科技的倫理及政治面向,並重新認識作為「網民」之意; -刺激學生批判地審視資訊傳播科技的創意與設計,以及各種離經叛道的運用。
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1.1. 報告文章及討論(30%)Presentation of selected article(s) and class discussion 學生需要選取1-2篇文章作報告,所有同學需參與課堂討論 Each student is required to present 1 or 2 article(s) and participate in class discussion 1.2. 期末論文(70%):社交媒體上的故事 (甲部 20%,乙部 50%) Term Paper: Tales from Social Media (Part A 20%, Part B 50%) 建基於自己的觀察、參與及分析,期末學生需要完成一篇論文。參考Miller (2011),撰寫一個關於他/她自己或他/她的朋友在社交媒體上的故事,但請尋求被研究者的同意。學生需要在學期末分享他/她的研究經驗。 這份作業聚焦在以下問題: a. 你的故事是關於甚麼主題(親密關係、身份認同、共同體、民族主義、社會行動等等)? b. 現有文獻(理論及經驗研究)會如何理解或解釋你的故事? c. 你自己的分析帶來甚麼新的理解? By the end of the semester, each student will finish a paper based on his/her observation, participation, and analysis. With reference to Miller (2011), she/he will be responsible for writing a tale about social media (Facebook, IG, WeChat, etc.) and her/himself or a friend. Please seek his/her consent to participate in this research. This project, carried out in stages, requires each student to share their research experiences with one another by the end of this course. This project focuses on the following questions: a. What theme (intimate relationship, identity, community, nationalism, activism, etc.) is your story about? b. How would the current literature (theoretical and empirical studies) on this particular theme make sense of your story? c. What new understanding or insight do you gain from your analyze? How is it different from the current literature on this theme?
| 週次 | 主題 |
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| 第 1 週 | A History of the Internet It outlines the historical trajectory of the Internet. Manuel Castells (2001) “Lessons from the History of the Internet” The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 9-35. |
| 第 2 週 | The Countercultural Origin of the Internet It dates the origin of the Internet back to the early history of counterculture. Turner, Fred (2006) From counterculture to cyberculture_Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. University of Chicago Press, Chapter 1, 2 & 8. |
| 第 3 週 | Self and the Net: Multiple Subjectivity It discusses the possibility of making multiple identities in the cyber-world. -William, Robert W. 2005. Politics and Self in the Age of Digital (Re)producibility. Fast Capitalism, 1(1): 104-121. -Turkle. 1997. Multiple Subjectivity and virtual community at the end of Freudian Century. Sociological Inquiry 67(1): 72-84. |
| 第 4 週 | Self and the Net: The Presentation of Self In view of Erving Goffman’s work, we examine the new dynamics of self-presentation in the age of social media. -Hogen. 2010. The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 30(6): 377-386. -Nguyen, Thanh-Nha, Matthew McDonald, Truc Ha Thanh Nguyen, and Brian McCauley. 2020. “Gender Relations and Social Media: A Grounded Theory Inquiry of Young Vietnamese Women’s Self-Presentations on Facebook.” Gender, Technology and Development 24(2): 174–93. |
| 第 5 週 | Online Public Sphere I: Deliberation, Carnival, and the Web -Chu, Donna. 2009. Collective Behavior in Youtube: : a case study of ‘Bus Uncle’ online videos. Asian Journal of Communication 19(3): 337-353; -Papacharissi, Zizi. 2002. The Virtual Sphere: .The internet as a public sphere. New Media and Society 4(9): 9-27; -Dahlgren, Peter. 2005. “The Internet, Public Spheres, and Political Communication.” Political Communication 22(2): 147-162. -Yang, Peidong, Tang, Lijun, and Wang, Xuan. 2015. Diaosi as infrapolitics: scatological tropes, identity-making and cultural intimacy on China’s Internet. Media, Culture & Society 37(2): 197-214. |
| 第 6 週 | Online Public Sphere II: Social Media and the Social -Gerbaudo, Paolo. 2018. Social Media and Populism: An Elective Affinity? Media Culture & Society 40(5): 745–53. -Hardey, Michael. 2002. Life beyond the Screen: Embodiment and Identity through the Internet. The Sociological Review 50(4): 570-585. -Fuchs, C. 2014. Social Media: A Critical Introduction, London: Sage, Chapter 2& 3. -Miller, Daniel. 2011. Tales from Facebook. Cambridge: Polity, Chapter 1 & 2. -Rayner, Tim. 2012. Foucault and social media. Philosophy for Change: Ideas that make a difference. (https://bit.ly/1fvyxSt) |
| 第 7 週 | Surveillance, Data, and Biopower -Cheney-Lippold. 2011. A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control. Theory, Culture & Society 28(6): 164-181. -Kotliar, Dan M. 2020. The Return of the Social: Algorithmic Identity in an Age of Symbolic Demise. New Media & Society 22(7): 1152–67. |
| 第 8 週 | Digital Privacy and Subjectivity -Epstein, Charlotte. 2016. “Surveillance, Privacy and the Making of the Modern Subject: Habeas What Kind of Corpus?” Body & Society 22, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 28–57. -Vallee, Mickey. 2018. “Biometrics, Affect, Autoaffection and the Phenomenological Voice.” Subjectivity 11(2): 161–76. |
| 第 9 週 | The Internet and National Identities -Soffer, Oren. 2013. The Internet and National Solidarity: A Theoretical Analysis. Communication Theory, 23: 48–66. -Conversi, Daniele. 2012. Irresponsible Radicalisation: Diasporas, Globalisation and Long-Distance Nationalism in the Digital Age. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38 (9): 1357–79. |
| 第 10 週 | Online Nationalism and Subculture -Rumi, Sakamoto. 2011. “Koreans, Go Home!” Internet Nationalism in Contemporary Japan as a Digitally Mediated Subculture. The Asia-Pacific Journal. (https://apjjf.org/2011/9/10/Rumi-SAKAMOTO/3497/article.html) -Qiu, Jack Linchuan. 2015. “Go Baobao! Image-Driven Nationalism, Generation Post-1980s, and Mainland Students in Hong Kong.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 23(1): 145–65. -Fang, Kecheng, and Maria Repnikova. 2018. “Demystifying ‘Little Pink’: The Creation and Evolution of a Gendered Label for Nationalistic Activists in China.” New Media & Society 20 (6): 2162–85. |
| 第 11 週 | Cyberculture and Game -Ito, Mizuko. 2007. Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production. Joe Karaganis and Natalie Jeremijenko Ed., Structures of Participation in Digital Culture. Duke University Press, 88-111. -Giddings, Seth. 2007. A ’Pataphysics Engine. Games and Culture 2(4): 392–404. -Kingsepp, Eva. 2007. Fighting Hyperreality With Hyperreality: History and Death in World War II Digital Games. Games and Culture 2(4): 366–75. |
| 第 12 週 | Hate Speech and the Internet Udupa, Sahana. 2017. Gaali Cultures: The Politics of Abusive Exchange on Social Media. New Media & Society, 20(4): 1506-1522. Sobieraj, Sara and Berry. Jeffrey. 2011. From Incivility to Outrage. Political Communication 28(1): 19-41. |
| 第 13 週 | Online Misogyny Jones, Callum, Verity Trott, and Scott Wright. 2020. “Sluts and Soyboys: MGTOW and the Production of Misogynistic Online Harassment.” New Media & Society 22(10): 1903–21. Banet-Weiser S. 2015. Popular misogyny: a zeitgeist. Culture Digitally. Available at: http://culturedigitally.org/2015/01/popular-misogyny-a-zeitgeist/ Banet-Weiser S and Miltner KM. 2016. # MasculinitySoFragile: culture, structure, and networked misogyny. Feminist Media Studies 16(1): 171–174. |
| 第 14 週 | Cyber-Activism: Political Changes or “Click First!”? Heidi Herzogenrath-Amelung. 2016. The New Instantaneity: How Social Media are Helping Us Privilege the (Politically) Correct over the True. Media Culture & Society 38, no. 7 (2016): 1080–89. Keonyoung Park and Hyejoon Rim. 2020. “Click First!’: The Effects of Instant Activism via a Hoax on Social Media. Social Media + Society 6(2). Lee, Francis. 2019. Solidarity in the Anti-Extradition Bill movement in Hong Kong. Critical Asian Studies. 52(1). Liang, Hai, and Francis L. F. Lee. 2021. “Opinion Leadership in a Leaderless Movement: Discussion of the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in the ‘LIHKG’ Web Forum.” Social Movement Studies, 1–19. |
| 第 15 週 | Student Presentation |
| 第 16 週 | Student Presentation |
- 地點
- 教室、辦公室或線上會晤。 Classroom, instructor's office, or online meeting room.
- 時間
- 第7週後學生在課堂上報告期末論文題目,並進行討論,個別晤談約容後安排。 Students will present their final paper topics and ideas after Week 7 to acquire feedbacks from the class. Students may arrange a meeting with the instructor for discussion of the final papers by appointment.
- 聯絡方式
- 葉蔭聰老師電郵 Email:hegelchong@gmail.com