[p2p-research] a star is born, our in-house cyber-warrior

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Athina Karatzogianni <athina.k at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Subject: "reaching out to the community"
thanks for spreading the world about the p2p conference in hull!


http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Get-clued-up-on-the.6059137.jp




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Get clued up on the 'anarchic' power of the world wide web
 [image: DR ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI: Internet is ‘like a teenager’.]
DR ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI: Internet is ‘like a teenager’.



*Published Date: *10 February 2010
By Alexandra Wood
THE ever-changing world of the Internet will be put under the spotlight in
Hull next month.
The inaugural conference of the VIRT3C group aims to put Hull University on
the map for Internet studies research.

Organiser Dr Athina Karatzogianni said: "This is an academic conference but
we are trying to reach out to the public as well. It will be a fantastic
opportunity to hear (keynote speaker) Geert Lovink (from the Institute of
Network Culture in Amsterdam).

"The idea is to discuss virtual collaborative networks and looking at the
conflicts which are emerging, their difficulties and their successes."

The Internet revolution has been a huge boon to both anti-war movements, who
have been able to mobilise support more rapidly than ever before, and groups
like Al-Qaeda which uses the Web to recruit and train members in a way, she
said, which "works like a franchise almost".

Dr Karatzogianni added that until recently the US Government has been
"uncomfortable and clueless" about how to deal with the "uncontrollable and
anarchic dimensions of the web".

The world-wide scandal of Abu Ghraib, whose images were first released on
the Internet, was a wake-up call.

The US military now posts its own propaganda on YouTube, such as videos of
soldiers engaging with local people and playing football with children, in
"an effort to humanise an inhuman war".

Cyberattacks by the Chinese against other powers – German chancellor Angela
Merkel brought the issue up with the Chinese when her office was found to be
infected with spyware – is another hot topic.

Dr Karatzogianni, a lecturer in media, culture and society at the
University, said it remains to be seen whether the emerging conflicts on the
Net will transfer to the "real world", but concluded: "The Internet now is
like a teenager – you never know what will come out of it."

The conference runs from Friday, March 19 to Saturday, March 20, with a
public session on Friday at Lecture Theatre in D, Larkin Building, starting
at 5pm when Prof Lovink will be speaking. The theorist, activist and net
critic has been involved in new media since the early 1980s.








-- 
Dr Athina Karatzogianni
Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society
The Dean's Representative (Chinese Partnerships)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Hull
United Kingdom
HU6 7RX
T: ++44 (0) 1482 46 5790
F: ++44 (0) 1482 466107
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/FASS/humanities/media,_culture_and_society/staff/karatzogianni,_dr_athina.aspx

Check out Athina's work
http://browse.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ath=A+Karatzogianni

Check Virtual Communication Collaboration and Conflict (Virt3C) Conference
Call
http://virt3c.wordpress.com/



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