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. 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