The award is granted by the faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, December 2014, award to Mojca Pajnik
E.01 National awards
The paper looks at the wider role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of their use in global political struggles, but also on the back of their sweeping abuse for surveillance by global capitalist corporations and state institutions. A general question is raised: can the Internet and social media be perceived as a means of social progress or as mechanisms of oppression? The author proceeds from a critical perspective and emphasises that ICTs must be analysed as parts of the social totality. They cannot be understood in a dichotomous way, but only as being full of contradictions. Yet, contradictions do not entail relativism - class inequalities, exploitation and domination are filtered through ICTs together with the manifold antagonisms emerging from capitalist societies.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 32977245The project deals with the study of populism; with an emphasis on youth it analyzes populist groups and movements in reference to racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, homophobia. We explore the ways in which different forms of intolerance through the construction of the "other" become part of the populist agenda, in the 9 countries involved in the project (France, Italy, Austria, Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria and the United Kingdom). Special attention is devoted to the study of the functioning of groups and parties in the online environment; we examine in particular the role of the Internet as a space where exclusion is reproduced. Furthermore, attention is given to the analysis of actions of anti-racist groups and initiatives to generate democratic, anti-racist citizenship in European societies. Project coordinatior at the Peace Institute: Mojca Pajnik, Head of the project: University of Leicester, UK
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects