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Writings and course materials from Dr. Maximilian C. Forte, anthropologist at Concordia University, on politics, power, and advocacy using Web media. The actors in focus here are individuals, civil society organizations, political parties, and governments. The range of topics includes resistance, organization, influence on/by mainstream media, soft power, strategic communications, misinformation, information warfare, centered around issues of democracy, equality, social justice and liberation.
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- Wikileaks: The Iraq War Logs
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- Round Up of Wikileaks News: 01-21 October 2010
- Chávez and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in Twitter
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- Wikileaks News Updates
- Breaking the Internet in the Name of Freedom? Internet Censorship and Domestic Spying in the U.S.
- Digital Activism versus Traditional Activism
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- Articles on Wikileaks
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- Notes on Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Chs. 8, 9, 10, 11, and Epilogue
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- Building Your Research Paper on Cyber-Activism
- Online Activism Around the World, CFP2009
- Social media and the myth of techno-utopia
- Authoritarian Regimes Coopting the Internet
- Is “Virtual” Activism Not “Real” Activism?
- This Failed Revolution, Powered by Twitter: Revisiting the Recurring Themes of the Moldova Twitter Revolution, and Raising Some New Doubts
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Category Archives: Political Events
Wikileaks: The Iraq War Logs
The big news this week is the release of 391,832 secret records that cover the U.S.’ Iraq War between 2004 and 2009, now being hailed as the biggest leak of official documents in history (that might be questionable, but certainly … Continue reading
Round Up of Wikileaks News: 01-21 October 2010
Important news that came to light in the last week of September, thanks to the “detective” work of Göran Rudling, has been assembled and outlined in Rixstep’s “Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again.” We are shown evidence that … Continue reading
Posted in Political Events, Wikileaks
Tagged Afghan War Diary, Anna Ardin, Coleen Rowley, Iraq, Iraq War, Julian Assange, New York Times, Pentagon, Twitter, United States, Wikileaks
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Chávez and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in Twitter
Hopefully some academic(s) will write papers or books about how the Venezuelan governing party has made effective and sophisticated use of social media, in a way that is probably quite distinctive outside of the U.S. Besides Chávez’s blog, and very … Continue reading
Taleban Don’t Twitter
“The Taliban in recent months has developed increasingly sophisticated and nimble propaganda tactics that have alarmed U.S. officials struggling to curb the militant group’s growing influence across Afghanistan. U.S. officials and Afghan analysts say the Taliban has become adept at … Continue reading
Posted in Political Events, Twitter
Tagged Afghanistan, digital activism, Facebook, Hamid Karzai, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, media, MySpace, NATO, propaganda, Twitter
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Wikileaks News Updates
The Congressional Research Service in the U.S. says that the publication by Wikileaks of the Afghan War Diaries is not “criminal.” It was not unlawful to publish the information, according to the report (which can be downloaded from here). The … Continue reading
Free Blogger Ali Abdulemam
Protest the crackdown against dissent in Bahrain, and the imprisonment and torture of human rights defenders and web activists—support the Free Ali Abdulemam campaign: “To say ‘I want complete democracy now’ is not good for anyone. Throwing open the political … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Political Events
Tagged Ali Abdulemam, Bahrain, Bahraini government, Freedom of speech, Human rights, Middle East
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