[Reader-list] Critical Internet Culture – Masterclass with Geert Lovink

[The Sarai Programme]

The Sarai Programme invites applications for participation in a Masterclass
to be conducted by Geert Lovink. The two day Masterclass is divided into
six sessions and engages with the following topics –
– State of Art – Net Criticism
– Critique of Social Media
– Internet Time
– Cultures of Search
– Wikileaks-Anonymous-Snowden and other Net Activist Strategies
– Revenue Models for the Arts (Crowdfunding to Bitcoin)
– Book 2.0 and Digital Publishing Strategies
– Wikipedia Research
– Politics and Aesthetics of Online Video

The masterclass will include a 20 minute, one-on-one conversation in which
individual proposals will be discussed. The masterclass will be held on 11
and 12 March, 2016 at Sarai-CSDS.

Applicants are required to submit the following –
– A Proposal for the Workshop broadly related to internet cultures
– A Brief CV
– A Writing/Work Sample

Applications should be sent to dak at sarai.net with the heading ‘Application
– Masterclass with Geert Lovink’. The last date for submitting applications
is 12 February, 2016.

*Geert Lovink* is a renowned media theorist, internet critic and
author of *Zero
Comments* (2007),*Networks Without a Cause* (2012) and *Social Media
Abyss* (2016).
Since 2004 he is a researcher in the School for Communication and Media
Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) where he is
the coordinator of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC). Recently his
centre organized conferences, publications and research networks such
as *Unlike
Us* (alternatives in social media), *Society of the Query* (the culture of
search), *MoneyLab* (bitcoins, crowdfunding & internet revenue models) and
a project on publishing and future of art criticism. In 2015 their digital
publishing research was split off into the Publishing Lab. Since 2009 he is
a Professor at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee) where he supervises
PhD students.