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Earlier this month I went to a masterclass and colloquium at ECU on 'media participatory activism' with Geert Lovink from the Institute for Network Cultures . The holiday rush and preparing for travels preclude too extensive a post, but I wanted to at
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I've just got my second attempt at mapping the digital liberties movement back from Issue Crawler . It seems like a good tool - Tim recommended it to me when I was looking around for a way to map links between different organisations. In the chapter that
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In August, protesters in Denver faced pepper spray, tear-gas, rubber-bullets, concussion bombs, and mass arrests.I blogged earlier about protests against the Republican National Convention, so it seems only fair to mention the protests against the 2008
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This picture, from sgrah 's flickr stream, was taken at the 2005 anti-WTO protest in Hong Kong. It's interesting for me because one of the things that I'm researching at the moment is the cross-over between more 'traditional' left-wing social movements
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With the Olympics fast approaching, attention continues to be focused on China's human rights record. I've been particularly struck by reports that protests will be allowed, but only within designated spaces and after applying for approval five days in
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I'm just back from a couple of political science and international relations conferences, OCIS and APSA, wading through my inbox and keen to get on with my thesis. Looming deadlines mean that I don't feel I can do justice to the papers I went to, although
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* There are a plenty of definitions, descriptions, and categorisations of social movements out there, many of which are very useful. One of my favourites is Paul Byrne's description of them as unpredictable, irrational, unreasonable, and disorganised,
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