Experimental Humanities

Apply: Go East Summer School on Digital Disinformation and Non-Democratic Politics

European Humanities University is calling for applications for its Go East Summer School 2024, examining "Platformization, Digital Disinformation and Non-Democratic Politics: Belarus in Comparative Perspective" on July 16-27 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The Internet's promise to foster democratic bottom-up participation of civil society in political decision-making processes has been widely questioned at least since the Arab Spring counterrevolutions. It has been scrutinized even more after the digital platforms were widely appropriated by populist discourses and by digital disinformation strategies, including in democracies. The increasingly platformized media infrastructures have been used not only for deliberative democratic practices of bottom-up or horizontal communication, but also for non-democratic purposes of political disinformation and strategic polarization, exemplified by Covid-19 denialism or the disinformation campaign during the 2016 US election.

This Summer School will explore both the consequences of digital platforms’ omnipresence in non-democracies, with a special focus on Belarus, as well as the anti-democratic aspects of digital developments in democracies, such as digital disinformation. This conceptual and empirical multi-sited focus on the transformation of the political realm due to platformization will provide a  comparative framework for the dialogue among academic scholars, sectoral experts, civic activists, and students of all levels.

Applications for this English language summer school are accepted from practitioners and students of all levels in fields of sociology, political studies, journalism, anthropology, STS, media studies, urban studies, culture studies, history, philosophy, gender studies, design, art and multimedia.

Grants from the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network, fully covering participation expenses, are available to the students of Universidad de Los Andes, American University of Central Asia, Arizona State University, European Humanities University, University of Thessaly, Central European University, Bard College Annandale, Bard College Berlin, Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences, Birkbeck College at the University of London, Hampton University.  

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Deadline to apply is Thursday, May 2

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