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Marianne Franklin

Female
E-Mail
M.I.Franklin@gold.ac.uk
Personal website
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/franklin.php
Interests
Diversity / Inclusion, Gender Representation, Representation of Minorities, Digital Divide, Indigenous Peoples, Media ownership, Governance, Politics / Political Communication, Music, Globalization, ICT4D, Software, Internet, Social Movements and Sectors, Language and Discourse, Methods

Role(s)
Researcher

Location(s) of Work
Western Europe, Oceania

Current Institutional Affiliation(s)


Discipline(s)

  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies
  • Communications
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Science and Technology
  • Sociology

Biography

Marianne Franklin is Senior Lecturer & Convener of the Transnational Communications and Global Media Postgraduate Program at Goldsmiths (UK). With a background in the Humanities (History & Music) and Social Sciences (Politics), she has held teaching and research positions in several countries. On the 2008 executive of the ISA’s International Communications section, she has served as Section Chair and Vice-Chair / Programme Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section. On several international editorial boards, and one of the founding co-editors of the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy (Routledge), she is currently editor of the series Key Thinkers: Past and Present for Information, Communication, and Society.


My research is grounded in an ongoing fascination with the ways in which technologies, society, culture, and politics co-constitute one another whilst appearing to operate in separate domains. This interest takes several angles:

(i) ownership and control issues around (new) media and ICTs

(ii) practices of everyday life, cyberspatiality, postcolonialism and cultures of ICT use

(iii) transnational activism, NGO’s, and multilateral institutions in digital settings

(iv) new agencies and inter-subjectivities on the ground and online

(v) human-machine power relations in computer-mediated scenarios

(vi) contemporary culture and politics.


Selected Publications - M. I. Franklin


Postcolonial Politics, The Internet, and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online, Routledge 2004/2007.

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“Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the ‘Royal We’ Online”, in The Internet and Radical Democracy: Exploring Theory and Practice, L. Dahlberg and E. Siapera (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: 168-190

"'We are the Borg': Microsoft and the Power Struggle for Control of the Internet" in Digital Contact: The Web of Limited Possibilities, J. de Kloet, S. Kuik, G. Kuipers (eds), Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, vol. 30, 2003: 223-253

"Reading Walter Benjamin and Donna Haraway In the Age of Digital Reproduction”, Information, Communication and Society, vol. 5, no. 4 2002: 591-624



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