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The aim of this page is to keep all my key bibliographic references and web resources on digital media and activism in one place. It's somewhat rudimentary, I know, but it's also fast, easy to upda...
Occupy is part of a wide range of subterranean movements that explore ways to complement representative democracy and empower citizenship. Some citizens want to build stronger democratic institutions: others don’t trust elected representatives any more and promote a change that starts at a local level and in daily life.
Editor's note: In the last post of the Ethnomining' edition, David Ayman Shamma @ayman gives a personal perspective on mixed methods. Based on the example of data produced by people of Egypt who st...
Disgruntled Chinese citizens petition the White House for helpCHINA’s internet users can quickly form a mob. Leaders sometimes have to decide equally fast whether...
The "Twignature", developed by an Australian ad agency, has gone global.
Are you in Lima? Would you like to do something to preserve the Internet? Sign up for the 2013 Internet Freedom Camp: two days of free culture and activism in Lima [es].
The anarchist movement in the United States has had the support of leading libertarian intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky; but it has lacked a figure who could transform its guiding…
Social media is increasingly important for political and social activism in Mexico. In particular, Twitter has played a significant role in influencing government decision making and shaping the relationships between governments, citizens, politicians, and other stakeholders. Within the last few months, some commentators even argue that Mexican politics has a new influential actor: “I’m Number 132” (a studentbased social movement using Twitter and YouTube). After the Arab Spring and the uprisings that have led to significant political changes in Egypt, Tunisia, and Iran, the Mexican case could provide new insights to understand these social movements. Understanding the students’ political mobilization “I’m Number 132” in the context of the 2012 presidential election in Mexico, and how they have been using social media tools to communicate their concerns and organize protests across the country, could help us to explain why and how these social meda-enabled political movements emerge and evolve.
Via jean lievens, SkyeBird
Los representantes políticos con excesiva autonomía y la falta de deliberación y co-legislación con sus representados provocan las protestas que desean influir ante el Estado. Los mass media tradicionales (televisión, radio, periódicos y cine) y la Web 1.0 (listas de E-mails, Web sites no interactivos) secundaron la distancia entre ambos porque redujeron al electorado a meros receptores. Pero los new media de la Web 2.0 (Blogs, Facebook, Wikis, y, en particular, los Micro-bloggins y Twitter) pretenden superar los antiguos límites. Así, los primeros suponían que tenían democracia y buscaban información, mientras los nuevos obsequian información y exigen la democracia. Aquí se expone como los new media de la Web 2.0 buscan superar los límites de la participación tradicional y disolver, más que rebasar, las fronteras fijas y estáticas del quehacer político ciudadano en Internet.
The online world has much more in common with the mythological world than you might expect. A look at Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and Anonymous and their corresponding roles in mythology.
With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by locality, of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities.
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(2008). THE INTERNET, MOBILE PHONES AND BLOGGING. Journalism Practice: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 113-129. This research examines adaptations within traditional journalistic practice that are a result of the varied use of new media among both journalists and the public. Observations in newsrooms and 40 interviews with journalists from eight major news organisations in the United Kingdom and Canada highlight three significant changes: (1) shifts in traditional news flow cycles; (2) heightened accountability; and (3) evolving news values. Rising public documentation via mobile phones inserts a new element into traditional news flow cycles while material from bloggers acting as “citizen journalists” occasionally aids reporting of contested topics or regions fraught with accessibility issues. Elevated public scrutiny also obliges news organisations to contend with increasingly effective flak-producers. Some journalists have modified their daily routines to reflect the opportunities enabled by new media but altered organisational notions of immediacy significantly constrain time spent gathering the news, particularly within 24-hour programmes. Largely as a means of securing audiences, organisations are turning to their websites to offer interactivity and transparency.
Los movimientos callejeros están haciendo historia . Llueve en Venecia. Todos han sacado su ropa de invierno menos una: la socióloga y economista Saskia Sassen. Va vestida ligera, pero ha traído su pequeño paraguas. sábado, 14 de enero de 2012
Estonian pupils are taught computer skills from an early age as the internet is seen as symbolic of political independence.
Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rallysupporters and disseminate information as the "Arab Spring" began to unfold in 2010.
LPD Dialogue on Politics - Social Media and Political Participation, litical participation and actually beginning to test causal relationships.
Residents of Granollers had no idea that the odd foreigner with the orange van in their midst was the Dutchman accused of launching the biggest cyberattack in history
The potential of the Internet to enhance civic participation has been examined in numerous theoretical and empirical studies. This article concentrates specifically on the role the medium plays in affording and supporting new forms of making sense of public issues and getting involved in civic activities that evolve at the level of everyday life. Characteristically, these forms do not square neatly with elevated notions of political and civic participation. Their significance easily escapes recognition. Building on existing conceptualizations such as those of “life politics” (Giddens, 1991),“sub-politics” (Beck, 1997) and “the political” Mouffe (2005), and “democratic rationalization” (Feenberg, 1999), the concept of subactivism is proposed with the objective to expand received notions of what does and should count as civic engagement.
Not long ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement seemed poised to largely fade from the national conversation, with few concrete accomplishments beyond introducing its hallmark phrase, ''We are the 99 per cent''.
Via jean lievens
Contagion Workshop 2: Social media, reality mining and new species of contagion A Research and Knowledge Transfer research event Date 14 May 2013 Time 10:45 to 16:00 Place Institute of Arabic and I...
How self-absorbed computer nerds became a powerful force for freedom.
An academic take on the political uses of memes, viral videos, and all things social media
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