Public keynote at RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium: Dr Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University)

Networked Citizenship in the Age of Participatory Warfare: Mediated Witnessing as a Path to Citizen Agency

Dr Tetyana Lokot (Dublin City University)

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Thursday 1 February 2024 | 10.00-12.00

Norman Building | Room: Weverij
Lutkenieuwstraat 5
9712 AW  Groningen

Registration: Please send an e-mail to rmes@rug.nl, including your name, affiliation, status (RMA, PhD, Staff member, other) and research school membership

The keynote interrogates the evolving concept of networked citizenship in the context of participatory war. Based on ethnographic observations of citizen digital media use during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it reflects on how citizens practice civic agency in digital spaces and how they navigate the challenges and constraints of the wartime hybrid media ecosystem. Exploring the connections between citizens’ mediated witnessing practices, affective expression and citizen knowledge production, the keynote offers new ways of thinking about networked citizenship and citizen participation in conflicts in the age of intensely mediated warfare.

Tetyana Lokot is Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society at the School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland. She researches protest and mobilisation, threats to digital rights, networked authoritarianism, internet freedom, and internet governance in Eastern Europe. Her work has been published in Information, Communication and Society, Surveillance and Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Media + Society, and Digital Journalism. She is the author of Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent (2021).

Readings:

• Isin, E., & Ruppert, E. (2020). Being digital citizens. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Open-access PDF online: https://core.ac.uk/reader/334951560.
• Lokot, T. The role of citizens’ affective media practices in participatory warfare during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. J Int Relat Dev (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00317-y