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UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY - DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
PERFECTURE OF THESSALY

International Conference:

Folk/Traditional/Popular Culture and the Internet

Volos, 6-7 November 2013

Introduction Organisers and sponsors The conference programme

Abstracts

Irina Aristarkova (University of Michigan)
Micro-Creativity of Subaltern Online Communities

The early proclamations, expressed by major theorists of digital media and cyberculture in the 1990s (whether as a problem or a cause for celebration) of the new posthumanist hybrid cyborg identity have not materialized. In the last decade, however, the emergence of social media context, where popular culture and virtual folklore reign, the questions of identity and difference have come back with a vengeance. The prevalence of cyberbullying,  online harassment and corporate interests, but also the changing nature of micro creativity in online politics, with their impact on "RL" (real life) need a fresh new media theory which is informed by productive and forward looking combination of Marxist, postcolonial and feminist analyses.


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