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Date: 1 November 2024
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Room: RG01
This event free, open to the public and held both in person only. If you would like to attend, please register using the link above.
About this event
We live in a hyper-networked world where joining online platforms and entering digital transactions play a pivotal role in spinning unique dynamics of today’s sociality. But what if our digital interface with the world is limited to few state-sanctioned platforms? What if the most significant transactions we make must take place offline, not online?
This talk explores the unique case of millennial North Korea where the state is anxiously trying to catch up with the world standard of communication technology while also faced with the need to block free influx of outside information. In a country where smuggling foreign media still can be punished by public execution, how do North Koreans manage to access outside information?
This presentation explores the way in which the expansion of new media technology complicates North Korea’s seemingly monolithic facade mired in entangled networks of technology and surveillance, intellectual property and copyrights, and the way millennials live with censorship and surveillance.
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