Thanks everybody for your input. It has been very helpful and encouraging, encouragement I really needed at this point in time. I posted this new vs old activism question to a list owned by both scholars and activists and the activists pretty much said: "activism is activism" which i read to mean that in the past people have tried to change things (the world?) and today people are still trying to change things (the world?). (the response to this, i think, is that while the core reasons for activism haven't changed, perhaps the way in which that activism is carried out, has). But their response also had a decidedly anti-scholarship feel to it--"while you scholars are busy studying activism, we're busy actually doing it. by the time your findings come out, we've moved on to new things." But isn't that the plight of the scholar no matter what they study...especially insofar as technology-related topics are concerned? Should I take that response to mean that I shouldn't bother studying activism--in other words, are we talking to ourselves or are we making a difference in the lives of those who practice what we study? Guess I'm having a bit of a...moment. sorry. Kevin Sherman PhD Candidate Centre for Communication Research Auckland University of Technology
massa@itc.it 22/11/2006 10:52 a.m. >>> It seems nobody suggested this edited collection:
Cyberactivism: on-line activism in theory and practice. London: Routledge. Find a review at http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1/reviews/depew/index.htm I have in my toread list this paper that is in this edited collection (but I haven't read it yet): Garrido, M., & Halavais, A. (2003). Mapping networks of support for the Zapatista movement. In M. McCaughey & M. D. Ayers (Eds.), Hope it helps P. On 11/21/06, Kevin Sherman <kevin.sherman@aut.ac.nz> wrote:
Can anyone direct me to significant literature regarding what constitutes old political activism vs new activism--particularly insofar as its organisation, structure and implementation is concerned? Of interest is how (and whether) the Internet plays a role in what some are calling a new (global?) activism.
Alternatively, if you think there's nothing particularly new about activism, I'd be interested in that as well...
I realise this is a fairly broad question, but your responses needn't be similarly expansive--just a quick thought here or there would be greatly appreciated!
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