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Greece: Social networks in times of crisis
On April 23, 2010, when the Prime Minister of Greece announced the official call from Greece to the IMF with the port of the island Kastellorizo as his background, three things happened. First, the...
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Understanding #amina
On Monday, June 6th, a post appeared on the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” announcing that Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, the “girl” in question, had been kidnapped, possibly by Syrian authorities....
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Tunisia 2.0, on its way to the ballot boxes
An old building in the heart of Tunis, near the “Passage” neighborhood. Here, on the fourth floor, is where a group of Tunisian citizens live and play their part in the Tunisian democratic adventure....
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The Proof is in the Pendulum: a History of Digital Activism and Repression
Purist arguments of cyber-optimism and cyber-pessimism are becoming increasingly irrelevant as evidence of digital technology’s ability to both empower and repress accumulates. However, what is the...
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The Public Sphere of Occupy Wall Street
I keep returning to the public sphere as Habermas originally described it as I think about progressive political movements of today: Occupy Wall Street and its global dimensions, Anonymous and its more...
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Russia’s Networked Activists Shift the Momentum Against Putin
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party were victorious in last Sunday’s parliamentary election. But an unprecedented level of online activism before and during the vote has contributed...
View ArticleProtest Infatuation and the 4th Wave of Democratization (3)
The Future of Youth Activism The majority of people in the world are under the age of 30, and more than a quarter of the world’s population is under 15. As they enter adulthood they will take for...
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Drone Activism Takes To the Skies
Mike Tassey and Rich Perkins are heavy-duty hackers, the kind who give presentations at BlackHat or DefCon, some of the biggest annual pilgrimages in the hacking calendar. Last year, they presented...
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Canada’s Creeping Suppression of Dissent
Overshadowed by student protests in Quebec against university reform, a proposed budget bill is raising concern among Canadian activists and environmental organisations. Tabled by the Conservative...
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The Associated Whistleblowing Press
Beyond the judicial and diplomatic entanglements of its founder Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks project continues. Similar whistleblowing projects have been multiplying, albeit without much success to...
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