For a chapter on 21st century social movements, I would welcome papers, bibliographies, crucial citations, or observations on how the availability and employment of electronic media have affected the organization and practices of recent social movements.
mobile technologies in particular are becoming more and more important here - from their uses amongst the anti-globalisation protests in europe (assorted articles can be found in the british press, at least), to events such as the phillipine coup: http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-pub-cult/current/rafael.html i also have text and images of european-based text-messaging campaigns for political action and activism, if you want to contact me off-list. famously, one british minister at the time of the fuel protests in britain, where mobiles were widely used, remarked of the earlier thatcher-era strikes, "if the miners had had mobiles, they would have won." nicola
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