The past four months have been incredibly busy, especially since I started a new job as a lecturer in Utrecht. Now that I have finally settled in I hope I will find the time to post here more frequently. I will try to place focus on my research, teaching experiences, as well as interesting developments in (transnational) media politics.
Another reason that kept me from writing for this blog was a publication project that drew a lot of energy/attention in its final stages – but now it’s “done”! In a few months our new volume on the digital transformation of the public sphere and its relation to crisis, conflict and migration will be available (published by Palgrave). Co-edited with my former PhD supervisor Dr Athina Karatzogianni and colleague Dr Elisa Serafinelli I am proud to present a brief sneak preview below.
My chapter proposes an integrative methodology for the analysis of transnational web spheres based on my own research on the EU/Eurozone crisis. Also, I contributed to the chapter on the MIG@NET research project. The next major project is now turning my PhD thesis into a book (in talks with Palgrave as a potential publisher).
The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere: Conflict, Migration, Crisis, and Culture in Digital Networks
- Introduction: The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere
Athina Karatzogianni, Dennis Nguyen and Elisa Serafinelli
Part I Theorising Migration, Crisis, Culture and Conflict in the Digital Public Sphere
- The Migration of Normative Principles and the Digital Construction of Transnational Ethics (Martin Gak)
- The Digital Golden Dawn: Emergence of A Nationalist-Racist Digital Mainstream (Eugenia Siapera and Mariangela Veikou)
- From Bulletins to Bullets to Blogs and Beyond: The Karen’s Ongoing Communication War (Geff Green)
- Online Content Control, Memory, and Community Isolation (Artur Matos Alves)
- The Critique of Videology: Games and the Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere (Luke O’ Sullivan)
Part II Cyberconflict and the Digital Diaspora: Nigeria, India, China, Mexico
- Veterans of Diaspora Activism: An Overview of ICTs Use Among Nigerian Migrant Networks (Shola Olabode)
- Online Gender Activism in India and the Participation of the Indian Diaspora 2012-2015 (Adrija Dey)
- Beyond the Great Wall: Locating Expatriate Media Environments in China (Fan Mai)
- Social Networks and Communicative Meaning in Mexican Migration Networks in the US (Joel Pedraza Mandujano)
Part III Migration and Crisis Discourses in the EU Public Sphere
- Analysing Transnational Web Spheres: The European Example During the Eurozone Crisis (Dennis Nguyen)
- Intercultural Conflict and Dialogue in the Transnational Digital Public Sphere: Findings from the MIG@NET Research Project (2010-2013)(Athina Karatzogianni, Oxana Morgunova, Nelli Kambouri, Olga Lafazani, NicosTrimikliniotis, Grigoris Ioannou, and Dennis Nguyen)
- Understanding the Greek Crisis And Digital Media: A Cyberconflict Approach (Ioanna Ferra)
- Digital Ethnicities and the (Re-)Construction of Ethnic Identities on Social Media (Slavka Karakusheva)
- Frontex: Its Human Rights Obligations and the Role of the European Ombudsman (Nikos Vogiatzis)
Part IV Digital Culture and Communication Shifts in the Public Sphere
- Political Selfies: Image Events in the New Media Field
(Achilleas Karadimitriou and Anastasia Veneti)
- Italian Migrants and Photosharing in the UK (Elisa Serafinelli)
- The Politics of Transformation: Selfie Production of the Visually Marginalised (Patricia Routh)
- YouTube, Migrant Rappers and the Early Cinema Aesthetics: Is there a Digital Public Sphere? (Giacomo Nencioni)
- Banoptikon: Walking Through a Dystopia – European Project MIG@NET’s Digital Game (Ilias Marmaras)
Image courtesy of Unsplash.com
Dennis Nguyen 