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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> <b>From
Stacktivism to Platform Alternatives</b></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><b><i><span
style="color:black">A critical analysis of the
state of the contemporary network culture by
leading Dutch theorist Prof Geert Lovink</span></i></b><span
style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span
style="color:black">In contemporary activism there is
a growing realization that there is an urgent need to
distinguish between tools for (decentralised)
organization and (broad) mobilization that scale up.
Social media platforms have mixed the two up (news
& personal messages), to the point of becoming
unworkable, exhausting, unleashing mental health
crises, on top of creating dangerous situations in
terms surveillance.</span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span
style="color:black">The social media hegemony is not
yet broken but there are many cracks in its
architecture—and appeal. While the Internet Question
seems stagnant and unresolved, the hype caravan has
moved on. From VR, crypto and Web3 we are now all in
the grip of ‘AI' as the latest marketing term for
machine learning and large language models that feeds
its generic ’summary’ content back into the Web. While
the ‘infuencer’ persona is in decline, the mass
obsession with likes, views, comments, swiping from
one TikTok video to the next, retweets funny memes
continues. What will disrupt the 'bored billions’ is
the automation of activism (already visible in the
current waves of fake news and deep fakes).</span></p>
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style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span
style="color:black">While officials raise the ethics
issue of AI for Good, asking the impossible question
how to build ‘responsible’ extraction software,
hackers, designers and other artists are coding
subversive tools that disrupt and undermine the
totalitarian system of control, ‘polluting’ data
bases, turning fake news and monstrous images upside
down. The message is clear: the world prepares for
planetary cyberwarfare. Are you ready?</span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><b><u><span
style="color:black;background:white">Registration
link</span></u><span
style="color:black;background:white"><br>
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href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-stacktivism-to-platform-alternatives-tickets-1052983942317?aff=oddtdtcreator"
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<p style="background:white"><b><u><span
style="color:black">About the speaker</span></u></b><span
style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"
style="background:white;line-height:1.5rem"><span
style="color:black">Geert Lovink is a Dutch media
theorist, internet critic and author of
</span><u><span style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/uncanny-networks-geert-lovink/"
target="_blank"
title="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/uncanny-networks-geert-lovink/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Uncanny Networks</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2002), </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/dark-fiber-geert-lovink/"
target="_blank"
title="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/dark-fiber-geert-lovink/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Dark Fiber</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2002), </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/my-first-recession-geert-lovink/"
target="_blank"
title="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/my-first-recession-geert-lovink/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">My First Recession</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2003), </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/zero-comments-geert-lovink/"
target="_blank"
title="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/zero-comments-geert-lovink/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Zero Comments</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2007), </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/networks-without-a-cause-geert-lovink/"
target="_blank"
title="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/networks-without-a-cause-geert-lovink/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Networks Without a Cause</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2012), </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/social-media-abyss-critical-internet-cultures-and-the-force-of-negation/"
target="_blank"
title="http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/social-media-abyss-critical-internet-cultures-and-the-force-of-negation/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Social Media Abyss</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2016), </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/organizationaftersocialmedia-web.pdf"
target="_blank"
title="https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/organizationaftersocialmedia-web.pdf"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Organisation after Social
Media</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (with Ned Rossiter, 2018),
</span><u><span style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/"
target="_blank"
title="https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339344/sad-by-design/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Sad by Design</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2019) and </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="https://valiz.nl/en/publications/stuck-on-the-platform"
target="_blank"
title="https://valiz.nl/en/publications/stuck-on-the-platform"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Stuck on the Platform</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> (2022). Almost all these books
have been translated into German, Italian and Spanish.
In 2019 an anthology of his work appeared in Russian
with other translations in Turkish and Chinese.</span></p>
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style="background:white;line-height:1.5rem"><span
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span
style="color:black">Geert Lovink got his BA and MA in
Social and Political Sciences from the University of
Amsterdam in 1984 and did his PhD at the English
Department, Media & Communication Program at the
University of Melbourne (2002). He was a postdoc at
the University of Queensland in 2003. In 2004 he was
appointed research professor (lector) at the Amsterdam
University of Applied Science (HvA) where he founded
the
</span><u><span style="color:#3659E3"><a
href="http://www.networkcultures.org/"
target="_blank"
title="http://www.networkcultures.org/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">Institute of Network
Cultures</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black">. From 2007-2017 he was Professor
of Media Theory at the </span><u><span
style="color:#3659E3"><a href="http://www.egs.edu/"
target="_blank" title="http://www.egs.edu/"><span
style="color:#3659E3">European Graduate School</span></a></span></u><span
style="color:black"> where he supervised five PhD
theses. From 2004-2012 he was an associate professor
in the digital cultures program of Media Studies at
the University of Amsterdam where he supervised
numerous MA theses.</span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span
style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span
style="color:black">His centre organizes conferences,
publications and research networks such as Video
Vortex (online video), The Future of Art Criticism and
MoneyLab (internet-based revenue models in the arts).
Recent projects deal with digital publishing
experiments, critical meme research, participatory
hybrid events and precarity in the arts. In December
2021 he was appointed Professor of Art and Network
Cultures at the UvA Art History Department. The Chair
(one day a week) is supported by the HvA.</span></p>
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style="color:black">Enquiries</span></u></b><span
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style="color:black">Please send your enquiries to Prof
Scott McQuire via
<a href="mailto:mcquire@unimelb.edu.au"
title="mcquire@unimelb.edu.au"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">mcquire@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></p>
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Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners
of the unceded lands on which I work, learn and
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