Recent technological developments have enabled individuals and groups who are socially disparate and geographically dispersed to connect and communicate with relative speed and ease. This unprecedented access to others’ experiences, personal details and political opinions has had a range of significant effects on social practices and relationships. This event will focus on those effects that can positively impact people’s lives, for example by helping to disrupt and transform damaging practices, or by opening up new and multiple perspectives and possibilities in relation to social issues, policies or politics.
The day will include a range of presentations that critically examine the role digital communication can have in redressing forms of social injustice and inequality, promoting individual and group rights, and maximising communicative potential. This will include consideration of practices that raise consciousness about social problems, that allow people to express and explore diverse and marginalised identities and experiences, and that facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and information about complex and little-understood issues.
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