[Air-l] new vs old activism

[Fred Stutzman]

This may be outside the scope of what you're looking for, but yesterday I 
published a white paper documenting the user riots that occurred in 
Facebook.com from 9/5-9/7/2006 as a release of the Feeds product.  Over the 
course of three days nearly 750,000 users joined a group protesting the 
feeds, ultimately forcing Facebook to change the product.

Paper can be downloaded here: http://ibiblio.org/fred/pubs/stutzman_wp6.pdf
or read on my blog: 
http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/11/case-study-facebook-feeds-and.html

Best,
Fred



On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Brian Loader wrote:

> You may find an edited collection we produced a couple of years ago of
> interest:
> Wim van de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul Nixon & Dieter Rucht (2004)
> Cyberprotest: New nedia, citizens & social movements, Routledge.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Sherman
> Sent: 20 November 2006 23:39
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] new vs old activism
>
>
> Can anyone direct me to significant literature regarding what constitutes
> old political activism vs new activism--particularly insofar as its
> organisation, structure and implementation is concerned?  Of interest is how
> (and whether) the Internet plays a role in what some are calling a new
> (global?) activism.
>
> Alternatively, if you think there's nothing particularly new about activism,
> I'd be interested in that as well...
>
> I realise this is a fairly broad question, but your responses needn't be
> similarly expansive--just a quick thought here or there would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Kevin Sherman
> PhD Candidate
> Centre for Communication Research
> Auckland University of Technology
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