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New book: Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia
Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia: A New Civil Society in the Making Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim Publisher: SIRD Buy it online at http://www.gerakbudaya.com/ Jun-E Tan and Zawawi Ibrahim have...
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Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political Censorship in Sexual...
by Hai Thang Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA PGN, Vol 2, No 1 (2009) Abstract The growing use of the web log reveals a radical socio-cultural transition and a progressing public sphere in...
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Notes on Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy (Inglehart and Welzel...
Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Conclusion to A Revised Theory of Modernization chapter, pp....
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Cartoons: Spain protests in 2004 and 2011
Item 1. 23 February 2004, by la makabra resiste (courtesy of Ramon Ribera Fumaz) La Makabra resiste en zona de guerra especulativa. Maragall y Klos ya preparan sus tanques y sus bombas inteligentes...
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Spain’s 15 May movement and social innovation
Thinking aloud in preparation for Social Media for Social Innovation roundtable, Barcelona, 21 July 2011. My task is to speak briefly about social media and social innovation in relation to the...
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Democracy in the age of viral reality (4)
Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (3) Distributed democracy What are the implications for the future of representative democracy of the 15-M movement – and indeed of indignados and...
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Questioning Capitalism – Occupy and the space for alternatives
by Ragnhild Freng Dale via 17th World Congress of the IUAES Long Abstract How can social movements open new spaces for practice-based critical reflection and questioning capitalism? Throughout 2011,...
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Two diametrically opposed views on the #Occupy movement
Two wildly different takes on the Occupy movement have recently found their way into my Twitter feed. Both deserve careful consideration (watch this blogspace): Take One: Bank of England official:...
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We are the 1%: rethinking national elites as protest participants
Essay submitted to Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom). See [PDF] Suggested citation: Postill, J. 2013. We are the 1%: rethinking national elites as protest participants. Melbourne: RMIT...
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Global directory of freedom technologists: projects, networks, organisations
This is a working directory of some of the global projects, networks and organisations where leading freedom technologists — that is, individuals who combine technological and socio-political skills to...
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11. Monitory democracy in an age of media abundance
Public accountability campaigns are on the rise worldwide, fuelled by a digital media bonanza. Update 22 Dec 2014. See also Ethan Zuckerman on the related concept of monitorial citizenship. IN 2009...
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The making of a democratic citizenship in Spain, 1977-2004
Brief notes on Benedicto, J. (2006). La construcción de la ciudadanía democrática en España (1977-2004): de la institucionalización a las prácticas. Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas,...
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17. Digital rights in Southeast Asia and beyond: a review of RightsCon 2015
Update 1 April 2015: See also PDF version. Last week I was in Manila to attend the 4th meeting of the RightsCon series, held on 24-25 March 2015. This series of conferences seeks ‘to advance solutions...
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19. Freedoms and liberties in anthropological perspective
This is nineteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. Republished from St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. The Centre is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Liberties and...
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23. Freedom technologists bibliography
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists Annotated bibliography ** last updated 18 Sep 2015 (Freedom House...
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24. Freedom technologists: a short reading list
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists This is the twenty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series....
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Spain’s current political impasse
Yesterday, 12 October 2016, I took part in a seminar titled “Resolving Spain’s political deadlock” held at my home institution, RMIT University, in Melbourne. I presented alongside Marta Poblet and...
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