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...Richard Kahn; Douglas Kellner We argue that the continued growth of the Internet, both as a form of mainstream media and as a tool for organizing democratic social interactions, requires that Internet politics be retheorized from a standpoint that is both critical and reconstructive. While we...

...Daniël de Zeeuw; Marc Tuters At the fringes of an increasingly hegemonic platform economy, there exists another web of anonymous forums and image boards whose unique “mask culture” the article aims to deconstruct by tracing its roots in the cyber-separationist imaginary of early internet culture...

...Matt Applegate; Jamie Cohen This article connects the evolution and formation of contemporary Internet language with its graphical underpinnings, arguing that Internet language is a form of visual knowledge production that combines and layers image and text through a contested political economy...

...Paul Stacey This article examines two different approaches to the political significance of networked technologies like the Internet. It considers Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner’s “critical/reconstructive” methodology and Jodi Dean’s account of “communicative capitalism,” and shows how...

... a range of factors limiting the extension of democracy through Web 2.0, factors that are not taken into account by the cyber-libertarian discourse. Identifying such factors provides a starting point for a critical exploration of how democracy can be extended through the Internet. In conclusion, lines...

... has also created immense “virtual” spatio-temporalities based on the Internet that are almost wholly commodified. Moreover, these spatio-temporalities, both virtual and real-world, function at accelerated speeds, a “network speed” to produce forms of culture-production and consumption that no longer...

... heterodox internet histories. Though a focus on three case studies—artistic engagements with GeoCities, traces left by Indymedia in contemporary activism, and emerging ethical frameworks for reusing social media data—the article examines the political and ethical significance of attempts to archive specific...

... on how the changes in urban space and atmosphere can be understood, but also why 5G is a perfect case for techno-criticism and conspiracy theories alike. The waves of wireless networks are spreading to reach even the smallest niches, driven by mobile telephony and wireless Internet. In the future...

... via the amateur “produsage” made possible by a serpentine pipeline of digital-cultural interactivity and networked internet platforms. This is not to say, of course, that any QAnon participant is versed in the history of esoteric writing, only that QAnon as a discourse appears to rely heavily...

... Iraq. Circulating on the Internet were lists with congressional phone and fax numbers, petitions and announcements for marches, protests and direct-action training sessions. As the march to war proceeded, thousands of bloggers commented on each step, referencing other media supporting their positions...

... that a shrinking number of giant corporations exercise power over a widening range of media in corporate conglomerates that, in turn, control the press, broadcasting, film, music, and other forms of popular entertainment, as well as the most accessed Internet and social-networking sites. 3 Broadcasting...

... peace protests and resistance to war more generally. And yet, in Peace, War, and Computers , you advocate the use of the Internet, an inherently militarized technology, by global peace activists, as a means to create a better world. Isn’t there a contradiction here in that world peace is to be achieved...

... borderlands of theory and practice. In this issue, for example, contributors deliberate and discuss imaginative and contemporary conceptions of cultural politics that range over Maoism and war, terrorism, the anthropology of witnessing, communicative capitalism, the Internet and oppositional politics, Hardt...

..., the size of picture. Photography prompts refection on positionality – the relation of photographer to scene and hence audience to scene, observer to observed. Radio, film, and television prompt metaphors of temporality – sequence, syntagm, flow. Computerization and Internet sites introduce hypertext...

... or often uncanny human and technological forces. Influenced by contemporary painters that include Peter Doig and Luc Tuymans, Garnett's work is often based on techno-scientific or photo-journalistic images she collects from the Internet. Garnett can usefully be situated alongside other contemporary artists...

... interweb refers to the convergence of the Internet, the web, and mobile social media. 2 The term sock puppets refers to invented online fake personas used for false-flag recruitments or for spreading propaganda and disinformation. 3 Lawrence Lessig put Code online for crowdsourced...

... funded think tanks, and which therefore has much invested in the control, direction and meaning of new media, which is here primarily understood as the Internet. This is most singularly represented by the debate between Ira Magaziner (senior policy adviser to Bill Clinton) and Benjamin Barber (author...

... Thacker's The Exploit (2007) , with a rejoinder to the authors from the critic Geert Lovink that, contrary to the Deleuzian notion of control the authors examine, “Internet protocols are not ruling the world … [i]n the end, G.W. Bush is” (1). It is integrating the notion of technically executed control...