08.06.2012 | 19 Uhr | Autonome Universität

Mediating the Immediate. Influences of the New Media on Politics

Panel Discussion

The discussion aims at analyzing the interaction between the newest media and politics. In what way are the enhanced possibilities of communication provided by the new media a channel of instant communication? What kind of communication is this in particular? The future possibilities of new media involvement into politics might be more serious than we might have realized up to now. Occupy representatives,  politicians, artists and researchers are invited to contribute to the discussion.

Some of the issues to be discussed:

What is the role of the new media in politics? What is the nature of the new media's influence on political processes world-wide? How can public opinion be manipulated by the new media? The new media as the means of immediate communication versus the impossibility of communication.

The panelists are:

Artist Joulia Strauss, (Free Pussy Riot)

Martin Delius, (Berliner Abgeordneter Piratenpartei)

Alexander Morlang (Berliner Abgeordneter Piratenpartei)

Hector (Representative of Occupy Berlin and the Indignados, Spain)

Axel Kistner (Software Developer Liquid Democracy)

Conceived by the:

ARE/Artistic Research Encounters, Lily Khositashvii and Peggy Sylopp, in cooperation with the Autonomous University, Occupy Berlin within the framework of the Berlin Biennale 7

Special thanks to Joulia Strauss for advice and inspiration