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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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- Notes on Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Chs. 8, 9, 10, 11, and Epilogue
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- Building Your Research Paper on Cyber-Activism
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- This Failed Revolution, Powered by Twitter: Revisiting the Recurring Themes of the Moldova Twitter Revolution, and Raising Some New Doubts
- Clay Shirky: 15 Points on the Web Revolution in Social Collaboration and Political Communication
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Tag Archives: Clay Shirky
Notes on Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Chs. 8, 9, 10, 11, and Epilogue
From: HERE COMES EVERYBODY The Power of Organizing without Organizations By Clay Shirky London: Penguin, 2008 The notes below are direct transcriptions, except for what appears in square brackets. In the developed world, the experience of the average twenty-five-year-old is … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Shirky, collective action, group forming, Here Comes Everybody, media, notes, organization, revolution
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Notes on Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Chs. 5, 6, and 7
From: HERE COMES EVERYBODY The Power of Organizing without Organizations By Clay Shirky London: Penguin, 2008 The notes below are direct transcriptions, except for what appears in square brackets. Never have so many people been so free to say and … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, blogs, Clay Shirky, collective action, consumers, coordination, Here Comes Everybody, media, notes, organization, sharing, traditional media
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Notes on Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Chs. 3 and 4
From: HERE COMES EVERYBODY The Power of Organizing without Organizations By Clay Shirky London: Penguin, 2008 The notes below are direct transcriptions, except for what appears in square brackets. Our social tools remove older obstacles to public expression….The result is … Continue reading
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Tagged audience, blogs, Clay Shirky, consumers, Here Comes Everybody, media, notes, organization, shared creation, sharing, traditional media
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Notes on Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Chs. 1 and 2
From: HERE COMES EVERYBODY The Power of Organizing without Organizations By Clay Shirky London: Penguin, 2008 The notes below are, in most cases, direct transcriptions, in many cases edited. Check the original source. the power of group action, given the … Continue reading
This Failed Revolution, Powered by Twitter: Revisiting the Recurring Themes of the Moldova Twitter Revolution, and Raising Some New Doubts
Will we remember the events that are now unfolding in Chisinau not by the color of the flags but by the social-networking technology used? — Evgeny Morozov, “Moldova’s Twitter Revolution,” April 7, 2009 Reviewing a sample of ten articles on … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, Clay Shirky, Evgeny Morozov, globalization, Greece, Greek riots, HydePark, Moldova, Natalia Morar, power, protest, social media, ThinkMoldova, Twitter Revolution, youth
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Clay Shirky: 15 Points on the Web Revolution in Social Collaboration and Political Communication
Having viewed Clay Shirky’s presentation, “Protest Culture — Ad Hoc vs Institutional, and What it Means,” for which we had insufficient time in the seminar to critically discuss it, I decided to list what struck me as his “key points” … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Shirky, collaboration, collective action, conversation, sharing, social media
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