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# 基調演講 – Nerd politics and the global culture wars

## 講者

[頭貼](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CEVg8RF1dW3fSb9FdLfqMjMYaqp3iYOD/view)

John Postill (PhD, UCL) is an anthropologist based at RMIT University, Melbourne. He specialises in the study of media, communication and sociopolitical change. To date he has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, Indonesia, Spain and (online) in the Anglosphere. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Anthropology of Digital Practices (in press, Routledge) and The Rise of Nerd Politics (2018, Pluto). At present he is researching the globalisation of the online culture wars.

## 介紹

In this talk I build on my previous anthropological work on techno-political activism aka ‘nerd politics’ (Postill 2018) and on more recent research into the anti-woke movement (Postill 2024) to explore some of the links between nerd politics and the global culture wars. I am primarily interested in those leading individuals and groups working at the intersection of nerd politics and the global culture wars who are battling over issues of race, gender, public health, and/or climate change – for example, the tech billionaire Elon Musk, the investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, the QAnon conspiracy/movement (Coleman 2023), K-pop fans supportive of Black Lives Matter (Cho 2022), or the Latin American hacktivist group Guacamaya (Levet 2023). I argue that some techno-political nerds are at the forefront of the conflicts that are polarising our contemporary world, while others are engaged in early efforts towards depolarisation.

**Keywords:** nerd politics, culture wars, techno-political activism, polarisation, global politics

## 背景資料

- 現職：[Dr Postill](https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/p/postill-dr-john) is a Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications, aligned to the Global Cities Research Institute.
- 著作：[The Rise of Nerd Politics:Digital Activism and Political Change](https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399836/the-rise-of-nerd-politics/)

## 邀請理由

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偷自[Keynote Speaker 相關資訊]((https://g0v.hackmd.io/@summit2024/BkSK5D1hh/%2FtN9T-Z7BSyanVM2ziV0dkA)：

> John Postill 這個人選是跟法律所的陳舜伶老師在某次討論中提出的。起初是在討論合作方式，後來我提到，當時 summit 議程方面已經訂好了 5 大主題，但仍有些意見，覺得第 1 個主題放 nerd politics，不是一個常見的關鍵詞，許多人會不明白是什麼意思。因為舜伶也長期研究開放社群的治理，我就問他法律所有無可能提出一些針對 nerd politics 這個方向的 session，而舜伶就說那何不邀請 John Postill 來講 keynote。後來再經過一些考慮，也從他的著作與研究發表還有找得到的演講來看，這個人選確實有他合適的地方。所以提出這個 keynote speaker 設定上就是扣著 summit 的主題的。[name=pm5]
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