What’s been the relationship between social media and social movement activity during the current global cycle of protest? Our own Sasha Costanza-Chock says it’s time to find out… Media Culture in the Occupy Movement From the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv Thursday 5pm @ MIT Sasha Costanza-Chock is Assistant Professor of […]
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Do social networks inherently support democratic values, in contrast with ideology-bound political institutions? At the MIT Media Lab Friday, former Al Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar talked about what it took for the news company to reimagine itself and listen to networks during the Arab Spring. He was joined by […]
This is a crosspost from the Networked Social Movements course blog, where Vic has written an excellent summary of student posts about resource mobilization theory: My name is Vic and the following is a brief overview of the posts for the week of Feb 20th: (Classical Theories), Resource Mobilization, Political […]
Lawrence Lessig sees the American people, enthroned as sovereign of the nation by the United States Constitution, as a sleeping giant. It’s OK to sleep; in general, we’d all rather focus on things other than politics. But there are times when our political system is so broken, we must awaken […]
Last Wednesday, immediately prior to attending an event on media diets, we presented a week’s compilation of our own media diets. The day’s scheduled events were rather meta with regards to conscious information consumption, and this turned out to be, in many ways, a theme of my diet. Not counting […]