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This panel asks the simple question of whether the variety of media invented and adopted by Occupy Wall Street should be seen as extensions of the movement or whether the movement can be seen as a medium in its own right. It does so by approaching this problem from three different perspectives: Occupy as a meme, meme-generator, operation, and platform; Occupy as a collective practice through which bodies affect and amplify each other by acting together; and Occupy as a movement that concerns the struggle for symbolic power and against symbolic domination in the urban space.

Presenters:

Jack Bratich, Rutgers University
Occupy as Meme: Socially Mediated Spectatorship, Jokes, and Affective Contagion

Marco Deseriis, New School
The People’s Mic as a Medium in Its Own Right

Not an Alternative
Occupying Occupy: Space In Conflict, Space As Conflict

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