Narrating the Digital/ Erzählungen des Digitalen

Expert: Nanna Heidenreich
Digital narratives are not merely stories linked to new technologies, but also stories about the digital realm: what exactly is digitality? What exactly is the internet? What rules does it operate by, and who sets them? Heidenreich argues that digital “narrative spaces” should not be hastily understood as “spaces of consensus” that submit to the logic of Facebook and merely generate approval from their audience (likes), but rather that we should foster a political, critical culture of discussion in which different attitudes and perspectives come together. Nanna Heidenreich is shaped by her history as an activist (Kanak Attak, NSU Tribunal) and theorist engaged with migration and cinema. For her, migration is a political movement based on digital and analogue networks. This raises questions about the politics of the image: Which images appear in the media, in cinema and art, and which on social networks? Where do transnational spaces emerge in which resistance to the resurgence of the nation state and the racism that accompanies it is forming?