Questions:
QUESTION 1: What kind of work do you do? Can you tell me more about your area of practice/research/profession and what’s involved?
QUESTION 2: What kind of feedback can you give me about this project from your area of practice/research/profession?
QUESTION 3: What kind of suggestions can you provide for how to improve upon this project? Is there anything I have overlooked? How can I improve it?
QUESTION 4: Do you think that the project is sufficent for the aspects that I am testing? Is it easy to understand the conceptial space around my work? If not, how can I change it to make it better?
QUESTION 5: Does involving politics to art/design project complicate things?
QUESTION 6: Where do you think the ideal space/location would be for me to present my work? A museum or a street? A school or a park (etc.)? Why?
Contacted:
James E Miller: Professor of Liberal Studies and Politics, and Faculty Director of Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism
- interests include social movements and popular culture
David Plotke: Professor of Politics
- concentration is U.S. politics, political and social movements, collective action…
Feedback: Did not have enough time to contribute.
Deva Woodly: Assistant Professor, Politics
- “I am interested in how democratic politics actually happens in the contemporary context. I approach this broad interest in a non-traditional way. Most American political science focuses inquiry on institutions, choice, and decision-making. By contrast, I focus my attention on the ways that public meanings define the problems that the polity understands itself to share as well as the range of choices that citizens perceive to be before them. Questions that focus on the way that public meanings shape our politics require a careful engagement with public discourse, like that found in newspapers, shared through social networks online, or spoken in the meeting houses of civic and social movement organizations. These discourses provide an empirical record of what members of the polity acknowledge as politically valuable as well as clues to the logics that people commonly use to associate their beliefs and values with the problems that they recognize in the world as they find it, imbricated as it is with all the structural, institutional, group-based and affective elements of life and politics. This observation of the central practical importance of discourse to democratic politics as we actually experience it as members of the polity, leads me to utilize methodologies, both theoretical and empirical, that reveal political discourse as a practical source of information, including statistical examinations of discursive content and theoretical analyses of the meanings unearthed therein.”
Feedback:
-Challenge: talking to a non-designer
Paolo Carpignano: Associate Professor of Media Studies
- relationship between work and media
Markus Schulz: Gives the class “CONTENTIOUSPOL&CHANGINGMEDIA” in Sociology Department.
- the class “…explores the relationship between social struggles and media, with special attention to the Internet and related new technologies. Movements rely on different types of media interfaces to inform, inspire, communicate, connect, mobilize, and co-ordinate. The accessibility, structure, organization, and inherent dynamics of media influence how movements can connect internally and to larger publics. The seminar investigates how movements adapt to the operative logic of mass media to get their messages broadcast, how they often fail-and sometimes succeed-to maintain control over their message, how mass media influence or even shape movements, and how movements create diverse arrays of own media…”
Jeffrey Goldfarb: Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology
- work primarily focuses on the sociology of media, culture and politics
Julia Sonnevend: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Communications
- work circulates around media studies, the sociology of culture, …and focuses on the “re-enchantment” of society, …technologies and artifacts of contemporary social life worldwide.
Sanjay Ruparelia: Associate Professor of Politics
EVAN ROTH: Artist/Designer
Feedback/Notes from the Interview:
-removing the content from the name
-maybe you read the content better compared you when you are seeing the name, even if you don’t merge tweets together and solely remove the name. because they don’t see retweet, they see a new tweet. should they see a retweet?
-nature of the medium, digital. do it digital. why take it outside when you have internet as a medium
-criticizes the filter bubble the internet has become
-‘it’s so hard to reach you so i am leaving this bubble to reach you—statement’
-mechanics and communication of the alt right—adopted the lefts communication skills-cross political spectrum games- some people are critical——artists daniel caller
-future implications: one feed is not needed, decontextualize them from the name, just small alterations of it, not change the meaning, just make people not know who they are. Trump, because of the way he writes and dictions of his speaking, you know he is him. more experimenting with it.
-context stream and removing the celebrity structure from it
-‘political baggage attached to it’
-what other social media platforms you could look at? instagram? snapchat? a set of different platforms. Twitter and Trump—highly branded things already.
-maybe identify other people to talk about social media than politics, if that is you are leaning to.
-FUTURE: how to get it out there? the more active you can be. interjection of the conversation to other spheres. maybe other people will start following you.
