Open fields. (Social) networks, revolutions and ‘new real-life cyborgs’

Bernardi, Floriana 2012. Open fields. (Social) networks, revolutions and ‘new real-life cyborgs’. JOMEC Journal (1)

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Abstract

The aim of this essay is to survey two major issues emerging from the recent waves of political upheavals both in the West and in North Africa: the role of self-mass communication and organized networks in building counter-power and that of the women of the Arab spring revolutions, the ‘new real-life cyborgs’ able to re-shape their bodies as places for semiotic writing and social mediation in order to encourage the rise of new social and political discourses. Making reference to a transnational postcolonial project, as well as to the Spinozan notion of affect, this essay will also try to investigate how global collective identities and subjectivities of the age of social media are shaped within the digital realm.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Cardiff University
ISSN:	2049-2340
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 January 2025
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2025 09:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175432

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