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Current academic year 2011-2012
See below the dates of forthcoming LRDG meetings in the coming year. Details of talks will be posted as they become available.
Summer term
22 May 2012
Online activism practices: a critical approach
Jonny Unger, Lancaster University
The internet comprises a constantly changing communicative space in the public (and semi-public) sphere. ‘Online activism’, i.e. the use of the internet by activists to raise awareness about social issues, to organise campaigns, or to exert pressure on institutions, has seen a vast increase in recent years, which has accompanied the exponential increase in the use of the internet in general, and social media such as Facebook in particular. However, the media and to a certain extent scholars have created a false dichotomy between ‘online’ and ‘offline’ resistance. Protesters in recent movements such as the Arab Springs and Occupy have engaged in practices involving a variety of technologies (which I define broadly to include not just computers and social media but also ‘lo-tech’ phenomena such as banners and voices) simultaneously.
By situating the study of online political resistance practices within the academic fields of critical and computer mediated discourse analysis, and also within the broader public debate on the role of online media in political struggles, I hope to offer some new methodological and theoretical perspectives on research in this area.
29 May 2012
Desert Deviants: literacy assessment and monitoring programmes in Mongolia
Bryan Maddox, University of East Anglia
5 June 2012
Bank Holiday
12 June 2012
Harry Potter and boys' literacies
Jane Sunderland and Stephen Dempster, Lancaster University
19 June 2012
The Academic Writing Zone in LUMS: our experience of introducing a faculty-based peer writing mentor scheme
Gill Burgess, Lancaster University
26 June 2012
An auto-ethnographic account of social and cultural practices around cookery books: critical and transformative learning over time
Awena Carter, Lancaster University
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