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DIGITAL FORAYS: Mediating the News: Digital Platforms & Publics

Zoom signup Many dynamic “alternative” news portals & collaboratives have developed during/since the Arab Spring.  How do they spread information and create publics beyond the traditional news cycle? Most often this happens through websites, social media and by creating dynamic content across various digital entanglements. Yet how do they mobilize their messages across different platforms specifically? Why one platform over…

Prof. Juliane Rebentisch (Princeton): Invisibility as a Political Problem. Notes on Hannah Arendt

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

Hannah Arendt advocates a concept of political freedom that is intimately linked to the appearance of the person on the public stage. However, Arendt's theory of public appearance is wrested from the problems of disappearance and invisibility - under totalitarian regimes, under conditions of slavery and poverty. To better understand the intuition behind Arendt's persistent adherence to a notion of…

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