CMS.860: Intro to Civic MediaWeek 2: Networked Social Movements Readings: · Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter movement” http://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Garza_Herstory_of_the_BlackLivesMatter_Movement.pdf. · Castells, M. 2007. “Communication, power and counter-power in the network society.” International Journal of Communication 1(1):238–266. http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/download/46/35 · Costanza-Chock, S. Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement. · R. Kelly […]
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Last week Roosh V’s planned visit to the UK was abruptly brought to my attention. Splashed across my social media, I saw that he had planned eight meetings for his avid followers in cities from London to Edinburgh. Last time I had the displeasure of Roosh infiltrating my consciousness […]
This discussion aimed to investigate the factors that help and discourage cooperative success. Each of the panellists has direct experience in cooperative groups and the time is divided so each has separate time to explain their own experiences. This post is a live-blog of the session, which is a part […]
What is happening to the economic activity generated by all the great projects we are a part of? As a part of the 2015 Platform Cooperativism conference at the New School, NYC, this session brought together different perspectives -including those with experience founding new labour organisations- to discuss how the […]
Today, I’m here at the New School in New York City with Nathan Matias for the Platform Cooperativism conference, which is bringing together a remarkable range of speakers on the theme of creating online platforms that are owned and operated by their users and workers. These two days feature speakers […]