Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear Daniel, Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342 with regard to the category ..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena. Best, Steffen ----- ursprüngliche Nachricht --------- Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015 Cheers, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Dear all, I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.* Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/* - that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power. It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples: Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected. Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly. So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me? *...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena. *Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politics-visibi... or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you! kind regards, Daniel *Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5* _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ----
This is a great initiative and I am happy to throw something in. My only flag is that it is an enormous set of fields, or zone at the intersection of a number of fields. Many of the works below are not directly writing about the social media environment but offer the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings for much of the research in the area. *Some important contributions/interventions:* - Invisibility and “the right to look” (Mirzoeff): [politics] - Invisibility and “the distribution of the sensible” (First Levinas & then Rancière) [philosophy] - Barbara Maria Stafford's notion of an aesthetic of “the visible invisible” [philosophy] - Invisibility as a precondition for transparency. The condition of sight (Merleau-Ponty) from "The Phenomenology of Perception" and of course "The Visible and the Invisible"[philosophy] - Hans Belting's work on the image [art history] - Georges Didi-Huberman on the "visible, visual and virtual" [visual studies] - Rob Shields on "visualicity" [sociology] - Elkins edited book on "visual literacy" has a lot of key essays from Mitchell and Sherwin and others.[social sciences & art history] - Tony Jappy's "Introduction to Visual Semiotics" in the Advances in Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] - My own book "The semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways" centres on this visible/invisible dynaming, and is in the same Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] - Paul Virilio's work on speed and acceleration is particularly applicable to the visible/invisible dynamic in social media - Marc Andreyevic's work on dronification, and all the stuff derived from Foucault's panopticon work is about the interplay of visible/invisible on some level... okay all for now! cc On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de
wrote:
Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politics- visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
-- -- *Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montreal Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research Fellow Affiliate of Concordia University - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina <http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina> Book: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>* <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>
This is a great initiative and I am happy to throw something in. My only flag is that it is an enormous set of fields, or zone at the intersection of a number of fields. *Some important contributions/interventions:* - Invisibility and “the right to look” (Mirzoeff): [politics] - Invisibility and “the distribution of the sensible” (First Levinas & then Rancière) [philosophy] - Barbara Maria Stafford's notion of an aesthetic of “the visible invisible” [philosophy] - Invisibility as a precondition for transparency. The condition of sight (Merleau-Ponty) from "The Phenomenology of Perception" and of course "The Visible and the Invisible"[philosophy] - Hans Belting's work on the image [art history] - Georges Didi-Huberman on the "visible, visual and virtual" [visual studies] - Rob Shields on "visualicity" [sociology] - Elkins edited book on "visual literacy" has a lot of key essays from Mitchell and Sherwin and others.[social sciences & art history] - Tony Jappy's "Introduction to Visual Semiotics" in the Advances in Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] - My own book "The semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways" centres on this visible/invisible dynaming, and is in the same Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] - On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de
wrote:
Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverloa d-politics-visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
-- -- *Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montreal Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research Fellow Affiliate of Concordia University - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina <http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina> Book: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>* <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>
I'd check out Fred Turner's essay in Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski and Kirsten Foot's edited volume, /Media Technologies./ He paints some fascinating contrasts between concerns about visibility, invisibility, and identity politics in the contemporary internet-driven media economy with earlier iterations. Cheers, Josh On 09/08/2016 09:30 AM, MC Cambre wrote:
This is a great initiative and I am happy to throw something in. My only flag is that it is an enormous set of fields, or zone at the intersection of a number of fields.
*Some important contributions/interventions:*
- Invisibility and “the right to look” (Mirzoeff): [politics] - Invisibility and “the distribution of the sensible” (First Levinas & then Rancière) [philosophy] - Barbara Maria Stafford's notion of an aesthetic of “the visible invisible” [philosophy] - Invisibility as a precondition for transparency. The condition of sight (Merleau-Ponty) from "The Phenomenology of Perception" and of course "The Visible and the Invisible"[philosophy] - Hans Belting's work on the image [art history] - Georges Didi-Huberman on the "visible, visual and virtual" [visual studies] - Rob Shields on "visualicity" [sociology] - Elkins edited book on "visual literacy" has a lot of key essays from Mitchell and Sherwin and others.[social sciences & art history] - Tony Jappy's "Introduction to Visual Semiotics" in the Advances in Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] - My own book "The semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways" centres on this visible/invisible dynaming, and is in the same Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] -
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de
wrote: Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverloa d-politics-visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
-- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon
Fascinating list of readings! A question in my head (and I am unsure if this is the right, or even a good question) is whether there exists a more clear definition for the idea of politics: are we speaking explicitly about the backroom deals in which political power––as mediated by elected officials or party elites in a democracy––is exchanged and used, or are we also talking about the types of populist and social pressure whose translation into policy is sometimes not always clear (ie community organization, hashtag mobilization, and coordinated campaigns as mediated online)? On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Joshua Braun <jabraun@journ.umass.edu> wrote:
I'd check out Fred Turner's essay in Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski and Kirsten Foot's edited volume, /Media Technologies./ He paints some fascinating contrasts between concerns about visibility, invisibility, and identity politics in the contemporary internet-driven media economy with earlier iterations.
Cheers, Josh
On 09/08/2016 09:30 AM, MC Cambre wrote:
This is a great initiative and I am happy to throw something in. My only flag is that it is an enormous set of fields, or zone at the intersection of a number of fields.
*Some important contributions/interventions:*
- Invisibility and “the right to look” (Mirzoeff): [politics] - Invisibility and “the distribution of the sensible” (First Levinas & then Rancière) [philosophy] - Barbara Maria Stafford's notion of an aesthetic of “the visible invisible” [philosophy] - Invisibility as a precondition for transparency. The condition of sight (Merleau-Ponty) from "The Phenomenology of Perception" and of course "The Visible and the Invisible"[philosophy] - Hans Belting's work on the image [art history] - Georges Didi-Huberman on the "visible, visual and virtual" [visual studies] - Rob Shields on "visualicity" [sociology] - Elkins edited book on "visual literacy" has a lot of key essays from Mitchell and Sherwin and others.[social sciences & art history] - Tony Jappy's "Introduction to Visual Semiotics" in the Advances in Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] - My own book "The semiotics of Che Guevara: Affective Gateways" centres on this visible/invisible dynaming, and is in the same Semiotics series with Bloomsbury [methods & philosophy] -
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Steffen Albrecht < steffen.albrecht@berlin.de
wrote: Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverloa d-politics-visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
-- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst
@josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you
"Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
-- Marley-Vincent Lindsey Department of History Brown University @MarleyVincentL <https://twitter.com/marleyvincentL>
On 08 Sep 2016, at 14:02, Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de> wrote:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme
Can we please stop using NewSpeak on this List? The term “meme” is meaningless: http://cosmism.blogspot.dk/2011/07/artificial-ape.html If you don’t understand rumor propagation, the spread of innovation, etc. it is time to learn, if you wish to understand these processes. dss David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark dss@socialinformatics.org Skype/Twitter: davidstodolsky
Hi Daniel (and others), Great topic. I agree with many of the pieces mentioned. Especially Brighenti as a good foundational paper. With the risk of being overly self-promoting, I though you might perhaps also be interested in some of the following work, we have done on the topic in TANTLab: 1) Madsen (2015). Tracing Data -Paying Attention: Interpreting digital methods through valuation studies and Gibson's theory of perception, In Making Things Valuable (link: https://www.academia.edu/19768480/_Tracing_Data_Paying_Attention_-_Interpret... ) --> This paper would fall under visibility as it discusses how, for instance, the UN has been experimenting with Twitter as a source for making crisis-signals visible. Based on readings of pragmatist theories about perception, the paper discusses what it means to see the world through such digital methods. This argument is further developed in my PhD entitled 'Web-visions - repurposing digital traces to organize social attention. 2) Birkbak & Carlsen (2016). The world of edge rank: Rhetorical justifications of face books news feed algorithm. --> Would fall under invisibility as it addresses the algorithm layer of Facebook and the way this backbone is justified 3) Flyverbom & Madsen (2015). Sorting Data Out. (link: https://www.academia.edu/19768604/Sorting_Data_Out_-_unpacking_big_data_valu... ) --> A paper trying to unpack the production of big data revolves around multiple processes of sourcing, organizing and visualizing. It tried to tries to make a typologi of the social practices involved in making things visible though big data. Hope it is of any help, Anders 2016-09-08 14:02 GMT+02:00 Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de>:
Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, “Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency”, J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here: *https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politics- visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
agree, it is a great topic, especially the link between temporality and visibility would be interesting to explore. Taina Bucher refers in her discussion to Thompson Thompson, John. 2005. `The New Visibility.'Theory, Culture & Society 22 (6):31-51 . Gesendet: Freitag, 09. September 2016 um 09:03 Uhr Von: "Anders Koed Madsen" <anderskoedmadsen@gmail.com> An: "Steffen Albrecht" <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de Betreff: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Hi Daniel (and others), Great topic. I agree with many of the pieces mentioned. Especially Brighenti as a good foundational paper. With the risk of being overly self-promoting, I though you might perhaps also be interested in some of the following work, we have done on the topic in TANTLab: 1) Madsen (2015). Tracing Data -Paying Attention: Interpreting digital methods through valuation studies and Gibson's theory of perception, In Making Things Valuable (link: [1]https://www.academia.edu/19768480/_Tracing_Data_Paying_Attention_-_I nterpreting_digital_methods_through_valuation_studies_and_Gibson_s_theo ry_of_perception ) --> This paper would fall under visibility as it discusses how, for instance, the UN has been experimenting with Twitter as a source for making crisis-signals visible. Based on readings of pragmatist theories about perception, the paper discusses what it means to see the world through such digital methods. This argument is further developed in my PhD entitled 'Web-visions - repurposing digital traces to organize social attention. 2) Birkbak & Carlsen (2016). The world of edge rank: Rhetorical justifications of face books news feed algorithm. --> Would fall under invisibility as it addresses the algorithm layer of Facebook and the way this backbone is justified 3) Flyverbom & Madsen (2015). Sorting Data Out. (link: [2]https://www.academia.edu/19768604/Sorting_Data_Out_-_unpacking_big_d ata_value_chains_and_algorithmic_knowledge_production ) --> A paper trying to unpack the production of big data revolves around multiple processes of sourcing, organizing and visualizing. It tried to tries to make a typologi of the social practices involved in making things visible though big data. Hope it is of any help, Anders 2016-09-08 14:02 GMT+02:00 Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de>:
Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- urspr�ngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, "Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency", J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham [3]http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ [4]http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ [5]http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ [6]https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here:
*[7]https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politi cs-
visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <[8]https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog [9]http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web [10]http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin [11]https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [12]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [13]http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [14]http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [15]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [16]http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [17]http://www.aoir.org/
---- urspr�ngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [18]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [19]http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [20]http://www.aoir.org/
The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [21]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [22]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [23]http://www.aoir.org/ References 1. https://www.academia.edu/19768480/_Tracing_Data_Paying_Attention_-_Interpret... 2. https://www.academia.edu/19768604/Sorting_Data_Out_-_unpacking_big_data_valu... 3. http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ 4. http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ 5. http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ 6. https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ 7. https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politics- 8. https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann 9. http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ 10. http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann 11. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5* 12. http://aoir.org/ 13. http://listserv.aoir.org/ 14. http://www.aoir.org/ 15. http://aoir.org/ 16. http://listserv.aoir.org/ 17. http://www.aoir.org/ 18. http://aoir.org/ 19. http://listserv.aoir.org/ 20. http://www.aoir.org/ 21. http://aoir.org/ 22. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 23. http://www.aoir.org/
This is turning into a wonderful list, I can't wait to see the final (working) draft with all these incorporated. The reference to Thompson also prompted me to share two papers: Andrew Goldsmith's "Policing's New Visibility" in the British Journal of Criminology a few years ago draws on Thompson and applies it to the increasing visibility of police officers due to citizen video and the internet, etc. I also have a forthcoming paper in the *Indiana Law Journal* that develops the concept of "collateral visibility" as forms of unintended visibility that flow as consequences from public disclosure of state surveillance (e.g. police body camera) footage that contains personal information about civilians that was never intended to be publicly accessible (it could also apply to disclosure of other types of public records under FOI laws). I draw on the ideas of Thompson and Goldsmith, and focus on the confluence of citizen video of police conduct and publicly-disclosed police body camera video getting uploaded and shared on YouTube, Facebook, etc. Newell, Bryce Clayton, "Collateral Visibility: A Socio-Legal Study of Police Body Camera Adoption, Privacy, and Public Disclosure in Washington State." *Indiana Law Journal *(forthcoming, May 2017). The paper is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2740377. Best, Bryce On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Anne Kaun <annekaun@gmx.de> wrote:
agree, it is a great topic, especially the link between temporality and visibility would be interesting to explore. Taina Bucher refers in her discussion to Thompson Thompson, John. 2005. `The New Visibility.'Theory, Culture & Society 22 (6):31-51
.
Gesendet: Freitag, 09. September 2016 um 09:03 Uhr Von: "Anders Koed Madsen" <anderskoedmadsen@gmail.com> An: "Steffen Albrecht" <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de> Cc: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org>, kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de Betreff: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Hi Daniel (and others), Great topic. I agree with many of the pieces mentioned. Especially Brighenti as a good foundational paper. With the risk of being overly self-promoting, I though you might perhaps also be interested in some of the following work, we have done on the topic in TANTLab: 1) Madsen (2015). Tracing Data -Paying Attention: Interpreting digital methods through valuation studies and Gibson's theory of perception, In Making Things Valuable (link: [1]https://www.academia.edu/19768480/_Tracing_Data_Paying_Attention_-_I nterpreting_digital_methods_through_valuation_studies_and_Gibson_s_theo ry_of_perception ) --> This paper would fall under visibility as it discusses how, for instance, the UN has been experimenting with Twitter as a source for making crisis-signals visible. Based on readings of pragmatist theories about perception, the paper discusses what it means to see the world through such digital methods. This argument is further developed in my PhD entitled 'Web-visions - repurposing digital traces to organize social attention. 2) Birkbak & Carlsen (2016). The world of edge rank: Rhetorical justifications of face books news feed algorithm. --> Would fall under invisibility as it addresses the algorithm layer of Facebook and the way this backbone is justified 3) Flyverbom & Madsen (2015). Sorting Data Out. (link: [2]https://www.academia.edu/19768604/Sorting_Data_Out_-_unpacking_big_d ata_value_chains_and_algorithmic_knowledge_production ) --> A paper trying to unpack the production of big data revolves around multiple processes of sourcing, organizing and visualizing. It tried to tries to make a typologi of the social practices involved in making things visible though big data. Hope it is of any help, Anders 2016-09-08 14:02 GMT+02:00 Steffen Albrecht <steffen.albrecht@berlin.de>:
Dear Daniel,
Though it's been published some years ago, I'd highly recommend
Brighenti, Andrea (2007): Visibility. A category for the social sciences. In: Current Sociology 55(3), pp. 323-342
with regard to the category
..."classical" approaches and authors that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
Best, Steffen
----- ursprüngliche Nachricht ---------
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility Date: Do 08 Sep 2016 13:09:34 CEST From: Ansgar Koene<Ansgar.Koene@nottingham.ac.uk> To: Daniel Kunzelmann<kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de>, air-l@listserv.aoir.org<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>
Hi Daniel, sounds like a really interesting topic to assemble a reading list for. One article I recently read that could fit in the invisible category, under 'influence of algorithms' would be Zeynep Tufekci, "Algorithmic Harms beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency", J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L., 203, 2015
Cheers, Ansgar
Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: Horizon Policy Impact, CaSMa & UnBias Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham [3]http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ [4]http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ [5]http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ [6]https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/
________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Daniel Kunzelmann [kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de] Sent: 08 September 2016 10:55 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Reading list on (media) politics of visibility/invisibility
Dear all,
I felt like starting another list of literature :) Here is the question/thesis at stake: We live in a hyper-mediated world, in which the *speed and sheer amount of media posts *(Facebook, your favorite newspapers, Twitter, blogs, you name it...) suggest that political impact, relevance and importance is connected to "being visible" or "making something visible". Vice versa, *if something is **not visible**in today's social-media-democracy it does not exist, thus has no meaning, thus has no political power/impact/relevance**.*
Yet, I feel - and so far it's only really a feeling - that *these invisible spaces and actions enable, generate and allocate as much political power as their visible twins.* Against the backdrop of "social-media-everywhere" and the *dominant daily narrative of the visible* (which we all experience when we look at our smartphone), I'm now looking for *authors and concepts that explore/reflect/challenge/*
- that either the *politics of the visible* - or the *politics of the invisible* - or even the *relationship between visibility and invisibility* with regards to political power.
It might be *authors and concepts that already reflect on today's (hyper) social media worlds**, as well as "classical" approaches on visibility/invisibility of power.* To give you two examples:
Thinking about today's social media, we could have a closer look at the power of images (e.g. a meme) on our interfaces (visible) or at the algorithmic structures that sort and "deliver" these images (invisible). Both layers of power are real, in the sense that they affect us in our daily live, but one is visible and one is invisible. And of course, they are certainly connected.
Same goes for something that existed before social media, let's say party politics. There have always been official press releases and interviews about how well e.g. a party congress went and what wonderful values this party now stands for (transparency, inclusion, etc.), but at the same time, at the congress in question, there also existed back-room meetings and private phone calls to influence internal party currents (opacity, exclusion, etc.). Again, both spaces and actions are real, in the sense that they have power effects on the party's members and/or possible voters, but one (media) space is visible and the other one invisible. And, here too, both layers work together perfectly.
So, anyone wants to share their must-read with me?
*...on "new" Cultural and Social Anthropological approaches and authors that already reflect on the politics of visibility/invisibility against today's backdrop of "social-media-everywhere". ** ** **...and/or "classical" ***approaches and authors* that do NOT explicitly talk about today's political (social) media contexts, but which you would consider highly applicable to understand such phenomena.
*Either directly drop your recommendations in here:
*[7]https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl-mediaoverload-politi cs-
visibility-invisibility* or reply to this message via the list or a pm :)* * Of course, when the literature list is done, I will be sharing it with all of you!
kind regards, Daniel
*Daniel Kunzelmann, Ph.D.c / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology twitter @der_kunzelmann <[8]https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann> blog [9]http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ web [10]http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann linkedin [11]https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5*
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [12]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [13]http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [14]http://www.aoir.org/
This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.
Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham.
This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [15]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [16]http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [17]http://www.aoir.org/
---- ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende ---- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [18]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [19]http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [20]http://www.aoir.org/
The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers [21]http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: [22]http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: [23]http://www.aoir.org/
References
1. https://www.academia.edu/19768480/_Tracing_Data_Paying_ Attention_-_Interpreting_digital_methods_through_ valuation_studies_and_Gibson_s_theory_of_perception 2. https://www.academia.edu/19768604/Sorting_Data_Out_-_ unpacking_big_data_value_chains_and_algorithmic_knowledge_production 3. http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ 4. http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ 5. http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ 6. https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ 7. https://danielderkunzelmann.piratenpad.de/airl- mediaoverload-politics- 8. https://twitter.com/der_kunzelmann 9. http://transformations-blog.com/daniel-kunzelmann/ 10. http://unibas.academia.edu/DanielKunzelmann 11. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-kunzelmann/7b/426/9a5* 12. http://aoir.org/ 13. http://listserv.aoir.org/ 14. http://www.aoir.org/ 15. http://aoir.org/ 16. http://listserv.aoir.org/ 17. http://www.aoir.org/ 18. http://aoir.org/ 19. http://listserv.aoir.org/ 20. http://www.aoir.org/ 21. http://aoir.org/ 22. http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org 23. http://www.aoir.org/
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
participants (8)
-
Anders Koed Madsen -
Anne Kaun -
Bryce Newell -
David Stodolsky -
Joshua Braun -
Lindsey, Marley-Vincent -
MC Cambre -
Steffen Albrecht