[Air-L] Social media and Political Horizons: Israel/Palestine, the Middle East and Beyond

[Adi Kuntsman]

Social media and Political Horizons:
Israel/Palestine, the Middle East and Beyond
14 June 2013  1-5pm  Samuel
Alexander Building
Organised by: Adi
Kuntsman, The University of Manchester and Rebecca L. Stein, Duke University
Sponsored by: The
Simon Research Fund, The University of Manchester and The Duke University
Office of Global Strategy and Programs and The Duke University Center for
Jewish Studies
 
Programme
9.30 -10.00 Registration Samuel Alexander Classics
foyer
 
10.00-12.00 Roundtable discussion S3.1
‘"Now you get a picture, you can put it in your
Facebook": Thoughts on activism, the movement of images, and
Israel/Palestine’, Simon Faulkner, Manchester Metropolitan University
 ‘Viral Occupation:
Cameras and Networked Human Rights in the West Bank Rebecca L. Stein, Duke Uniersity  
‘Colonialism 2.0: cybercide as digital oppression' , Miriyam
Aouragh, Oxford University
‘Social Media and Public Diplomacy: Nation branding
through Twitter', Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary
‘Collecting data for #pillarofdefense and #failing: on
the complexities of real-time data collection on Twitter’, Farida Vis,
Sheffield University
Chair: Adi Kuntsman, The University of Manchester 
 
 
12.00-1.00 Lunch S1.7
 
1.00-2.30  Public
lecture SG1
Theresa Senft, NYU
‘My Body Belongs to Me? On Global Spheres, Networked
Nudity and Feminist Activism’
 
 
Attendance is free but
registration is required. Please email naveeda.raoufi at student.manchester.ac.uk   to register 
Registration deadline:
10 June 2013


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Dr Adi Kuntsman
https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/