Post 2016: Fabulous Credibility (en)

Elle Nerdinger The Internet has given more visibility to a wider
range of topics, ideas, flavors, and aesthetics than ever before.
Our culture is growing together - not only through corporate
globalization - but though a network that is still free enough to
allow people to share, see and become inspired every day by what
others share. This has lead to a wider scope of what is cool or
acceptable. For at least the last two decades, the Internet is
making it possible for formerly isolated people or groups with
special interests to band together and claim visibility. This
enables potential access to becoming part of what is called the
mainstream.  This new situation is the stage for a new form of
credibility concerning many things fabulous, whimsy, and
fashionable. As the year 2016 has put many question marks in front
of things we have formerly taken for granted, our wold has been
turned upside down. For for better or worse. This has not only
given more visibility for political angst to enter popular
discourse. It has also made way for a growing number of formerly
unpolitical media outlets and parts of our culture to become
political. These areas are becoming platforms for formerly
marginalized parts of our culture that are now shouting out loud to
be heard – and are taken seriously.  This talk will show how
the Internet has not only lead us to something like a boss fight to
defend diversity, democracy, and the right to decide who you want
to be, against harder and stronger conservatism dreaming of past
greatness. It's about how our views of what credibility and
political weight look like - and how it has  changed
drastically in 2016 alone.  Taking a deeper look into what has
changed and why, can help us realize how far the population of
planet Earth has come and what potential there is, if
only we keep embracing diversity as something that makes humanity
as a whole stronger, happier and more peaceful.