maybe this article written from a surveillance studies perspective is also interesting: Facebook Feeding Frenzy: Resistance-through-Distance and Resistance- through-Persistence in the Societied Network Andrés Sanchez http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/viewAr... best, s. Those of you on the list might be interested in this exchange (here<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/10/08/social-activism-social-me...
, here<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/10/09/whither-the-tipping-point... , and here<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/10/11/facebook-does-not-promote... ) we are having on the blog ThickCulture<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/>about Maclom Gladwell's recent article in the New Yorker about activism and social networking.
Thanks :-) jose BTW, if you're interested in promoting work/developing ideas on the blog, shoot me an e-mail at jfmarichal@gmail.edu. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Anastasia Kavada < anastasia_kavada@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Dear all,
Please see below for the referenes on social activism and web 2.0 suggested by members of the list (which also includes some references from my own database). For any further suggestions please contact me at kavadaa@wmin.ac.uk.
Best wishes, Anastasia Kavada
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) School of Media, Arts & Design University of Westminster
Harrow Campus, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3TP United Kingdom tel: +44 20 7911 5000 email: kavadaa@wmin.ac.uk
*Journal articles and conference papers*
Chadwick, A., 2009. Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E- Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance. /J/S: Journal of Law and Policy For the Information Society/, 5(1), 1-32.
Gueorguieva, V., 2008. Voters, MySpace, and YouTube: The Impact of Alternative Communication Channels on the 2006 Election Cycle and Beyond. /Social Science Computer Review/, 26(3), 288-300.
Hargittai, E. & Walejko, G. 2008. The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age. /Information, Communication //and Society/.11(2):239-256.
Jansen, B. J., Zhang, M, Sobel, K, and Chowdury, A (Forthcoming) Twitter Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth. /Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences and Technology./
//Karpf, D. 2009. Macaca moments reconsidered? YouTube effects or Netroots effects? Submitted for consideration for the YouTube and the 2008 Election Conference. Leurs, K. 2009. ?Be(co)ming cyber Mocro?s: Digital Media, Migration and Glocalized Youth Cultures.? Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media Symposium, May 2, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Leurs, K. 2009 "Migrant youth & online hypertext: multiple modes of becoming/belonging." Presented at the 7th European Feminist Research Conference, June 6, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Lilleker, D.G. & Jackson, N., 2008. Politicians and Web 2.0: the current bandwagon or changing the mindset? Paper presented at Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference, Royal Hollloway, UK. Available at: http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-20-paper-download/ [Accessed December 30, 2008].
Preece, J. and Shneiderman, B., The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating technology-mediated social participation, AIS Transactions on Human- Computer Interaction 1, 1 (March 2009), 13-32, available at http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/ < https://webmail.wmin.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://aisel.aisnet.org...
Williams, C.B. & Gulati, G.J., 2007. Social Networks in Political Campaigns: Facebook and the 2006 Midterm Elections. Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, USA. Available at: http://www.bentley.edu/news-events/pdf/ Facebook_APSA_2007_final.pdf[Accessed November 26, 2008].
*Bibliographies*
McNutt, J. Electronic Advocacy Bibliography: Web 2.0. Available at http://www.policymagic.org/web2_0.htm
*Conferences*
Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference. New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 17-18, 2008. Programme and papers available at http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/
4^th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. The Pennsylvania State University, June 25-27, 2009. Programme available at http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/program.cfm
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*Case Studies*
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