This afternoon's session was a knockout. Liesbet Van Zoonen's keynote, 'From identity to fragmentation: fixating the fragmented self,' was brought together a heap of information which I was at least vaguely familiar with into new configurations, making important connections between the commodification of identity on social networking sites, the policing of identity by the state, … Continue reading IR13 Plenaries: identity, humanity, affective news, and the department of shameless studies
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Upcoming: #oo activism
In October, Dr. Tim Highfield and I will be presenting some of our Occupy Oakland research at the Internet Research 13.0 Conference. We've started putting together the paper over the last few weeks (which means that my Tumblr is currently full of useful quotations I've found along the way), and have been enjoying the process … Continue reading Upcoming: #oo activism
How to be useful: Twitter activist edition
Having talked a bit about my reasons for discomfort with the way we in the West have been following "Twitter revolutions", I wanted to give a few ideas about how to use Twitter to engage usefully with struggles in other parts of the world. I've been thinking about this primarily in regards to the Egyptian … Continue reading How to be useful: Twitter activist edition
Connecting to the Twitter Revolution
Right now my Twitter stream is full of tweets about the protests in Egypt, mostly retweeted information. It's easy to get caught up in it. As I type this, protesters and journalists are being beaten up, shot at. Twitter is full of personal stories: video of arrests, messages from increasingly-worried protesters, notes about the international … Continue reading Connecting to the Twitter Revolution
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