Description
This roundtable engages with debates IR around the ‘digital’ by exploring the emergence of natively digital mode international politics. While digital technologies are at the core of contemporary visibility regimes through which the international is represented, reproduced, and contested, the specificity of digital mediation involves new modes of knowledge production and politics that destabilize analytical categories and methodologies constitutive to IR, such as human\nonhuman, qualitative\quantitative, domestic\international etc. The participants in this roundtable will be asked to reflect upon how we can make sense of international political dynamics that are born in and native to the digital media environment, and which challenges and prospects does digital mediation pose to the predominant ways of “doing” IPS, and IR more broadly? In discussing how natively digital forms of mediation afford, govern or disrupt various dimensions of international politics, the participants explore questions of how natively digital encounters with alterity affect the practice of diplomatic representation; how cyber-attacks rearticulate sovereignty away from conventional sites of statehood and political agency; how natively digital forms of activism connect with the lived conditions of producing and disputing in/security; the implications of the digital remediation of humanitarian disasters; and the emerging role of digital platforms as actors in international politics, through practices such as online content moderation. Calling for conceptual and methodological devices that can account for the natively digital in international politics, these and other reflections begin to outline the specificity of digital mediation in the study of international phenomena.| Period | 2021 Sept 13 |
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| Event title | EISA2021: The Power Politics of Nature |
| Event type | Conference |