Digital Activism and Civil Society in the Middle East Beirut, 3rd-4th June 2016 The Media Project Conference Participants: Diala Haidar, Bassam Kantar, Safa Al-Ahmad, Alaa Shehabi, Lina Attalah, Sami Ben […]
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Tales of a Video Blogger Michael Chanan [Originally posted March 14, 2013 by Re.framing Activism, University of Sussex, UK] Download a free copy of Chanan’s e-book here Michael Chanan is […]
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University of Minnesota Press (2016) Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, and Tamar Tembeck https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-participatory-condition-in-the-digital-age An unprecedented transdisciplinary call to reassess the meaning of participation in […]
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Translating Dissent: Voices From and With the Egyptian Revolution Edited by Mona Baker 2015, Routledge Paperback: 9781138929876 Hardback: 9781138929869 *Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of […]
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Citizen Media and Public Spaces Diverse Expressions of Citizenship and Dissent Edited by Mona Baker & Bolette B. Blaagaard 2016, Routledge Paperback: 9781138847651 Hardback: 9781138847644 Cover image courtesy of […]
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A Theory of Nonviolent Action: How Civil Resistance Works Stellan Vinthagen Distributed for Zed Books 224 pages | © 2015 In this ground-breaking and much-needed book, Stellan Vinthagen provides the […]
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Mondoweiss | 13 May 2016 “Najawa: A Story of Palestine” is a 45-foot “street comic”, composed of eight large panels, which tells the story of a Palestinian woman’s life over the […]
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Methods and Data for Understanding Everyday Participation 25-16 May 2016 Location: Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS Click here for the full conference programme Why a conference on cultural […]
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London, 27 June, 1 pm For the past 18-months the research project ‘Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks’ has investigated the consequences of the Snowden […]
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David Graeber There Never Was a West – Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between (2007) From the collection Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire by AK Press […]
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