In this seminar talk, Dr Wcislik from the Polish Academy of Sciences disentangled the history and the present of networked protest cultures in order to rethink lessons for the future.
The talk offered a critical reading of the contemporary debate on cultures of networked protest and its peculiar rendering of the dissident experience.
The seminar argued that samizdat activism matters for that debate and examined the Polish case to conclude that media-driven horizontalism is essential for building a protest culture that is resilient.