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! Kevin Sherman PhD Candidate Centre for Communication Research Auckland University of Technology
Kevin, I think it depends on how far you want to go back. I would suggest looking at Pippa Norris' Democratic Phoenix. John McNutt -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sherman Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 6:39 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] new vs old activism 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! Kevin Sherman PhD Candidate Centre for Communication Research Auckland University of Technology _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Meikle, Graham (2002) Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, New York: Routledge. This is an excellent book Cheers, Lisa
"Kevin Sherman" <kevin.sherman@aut.ac.nz> 21/11/2006 10:38 am >>> 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! Kevin Sherman PhD Candidate Centre for Communication Research Auckland University of Technology _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Lisa Gye Lecturer in Media and Communications Swinburne University of Technology http://www.fibreculture.org/ http://www.swinmc.net http://halflives.adc.rmit.edu.au/ Tel: +613 92148345 The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker Education is only the beginning. Let's get on with it. Swinburne University of Technology CRICOS Provider Code: 00111D NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee. They may contain information that is privileged or protected by copyright. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited. The University does not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are secure and there is also a risk that it may be corrupted in transmission. It is your responsibility to check any attachments for viruses or defects before opening them. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact us on +61 3 9214 8000 and delete it immediately from your system. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised amendment. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
also: FreeNRG: Notes from the Edge of the Dance Floor - Graham St John (ed.) http://thehumanities.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.61/prod.2 and the classic primer: No Logo - Naomi Klein. On 11/21/06, Lisa Gye <lgye@groupwise.swin.edu.au> wrote:
Meikle, Graham (2002) Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, New York: Routledge.
This is an excellent book
Barry Saunders QUT sessional academic http://creativeindustries.qut.com http://d-notice.net
some thoughts rather than references I might point out that computer security people in some cases think Internet activism is criminal quoting the Seattle organizing. Being an activist pre and post internet I would say something has changed. I suggest you look at general internet books concerning human rights campaigns online as those seem to get the attention of internet scholars as different. I am concerned personally with expertise and the lending of computer or IT expertise to grassroots organizing. Also how can community groups use computers or non-profits when computer self help literature like the dummies series sets a business model for applying the computer too. Witness making a web page... you must be making a web page to do business and attract an audience otherwise why make one? Of course I disagree and would not like to see everything up for sale. Nor would I like to see everything up for free. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Fall 2006 Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. On 20-Nov-06, at 6:38 PM, Kevin Sherman 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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Some ideas : When were Greenpeace, Mécécins sans Frontiers (The French Doctors), The Red Cross founded - before or after the arrival of the Internet ? Look into the literature on volunteering, go to your volunteer centre : since when do churches, political parties, unions complain about a drop in activity by its members, a drop in membership - before or after the arrival of the Internet ? Read Putnam on Social Capital (and don't believe that his model explains the changes in volunteering in other countries) Is the Internet a major explanatory factor in his analysis of the evolution of bridging capital in the US ? Since when does traditional volunteering & door-to-door canvassing gets replaced by lobbying & mailing campaigns in Washington ? And of course, read Castells & Barry, Riesman The Lonely Crowd (it's from 1961) to the ground swell A technology can be an accelerator, a facilitator, a brake, in all cases an intervening variable, not a reason. Just my 2 ct. Frank Kevin Sherman 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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On 11/21/06, Frank Thomas <news.ftr@free.fr> wrote:
When were Greenpeace, Mécécins sans Frontiers (The French Doctors), The Red Cross founded - before or after the arrival of the Internet ?
Alex Sokoloff (sokolof _AT_ rpi _DOT_ edu) at RPI recently finished a dissertation on Greenpeace and the process of corporatization, computerization, and networking within the organization. He spent a couple of years working at the Greenpeace headquarters and was funded for later work by an NSF dissertation improvement grant to visit numerous other offices. Cheers. Casey
You may find an edited collection we produced a couple of years ago of interest: Wim van de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul Nixon & Dieter Rucht (2004) Cyberprotest: New nedia, citizens & social movements, Routledge. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sherman Sent: 20 November 2006 23:39 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] new vs old activism 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! Kevin Sherman PhD Candidate Centre for Communication Research Auckland University of Technology _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
This may be outside the scope of what you're looking for, but yesterday I published a white paper documenting the user riots that occurred in Facebook.com from 9/5-9/7/2006 as a release of the Feeds product. Over the course of three days nearly 750,000 users joined a group protesting the feeds, ultimately forcing Facebook to change the product. Paper can be downloaded here: http://ibiblio.org/fred/pubs/stutzman_wp6.pdf or read on my blog: http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/11/case-study-facebook-feeds-and.html Best, Fred On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Brian Loader wrote:
You may find an edited collection we produced a couple of years ago of interest: Wim van de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul Nixon & Dieter Rucht (2004) Cyberprotest: New nedia, citizens & social movements, Routledge.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sherman Sent: 20 November 2006 23:39 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] new vs old activism
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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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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