[Air-L] Malcom Gladwell Exchange on ThickCulture

[jose marichal]

Those of you on the list might be interested in this exchange
(here<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/10/08/social-activism-social-media-malcolm-gladwell%E2%80%99s-view-of-weak-ties/>,
here<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/10/09/whither-the-tipping-point-why-malcolm-gladwell-forgot-about-his-first-book-in-his-last-article/>,
and here<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/10/11/facebook-does-not-promote-activism-so-what/>)
we are having on the blog
ThickCulture<http://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/>about Maclom
Gladwell's recent article in the New Yorker about activism and
social networking.

Thanks :-)
jose

BTW, if you're interested in promoting work/developing ideas on the blog,
shoot me an e-mail at jfmarichal at gmail.edu.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Anastasia Kavada <
anastasia_kavada at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Please see below for the referenes on social activism and web 2.0 suggested
> by members of the list (which also includes some references from my own
> database). For any further suggestions please contact me at
> kavadaa at wmin.ac.uk.
>
> Best wishes,
> Anastasia Kavada
>
> Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
> Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
> School of Media, Arts & Design
> University of Westminster
>
> Harrow Campus, Watford Road, Northwick Park,
> Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3TP
> United Kingdom
> tel: +44 20 7911 5000
> email: kavadaa at wmin.ac.uk
>
> *Journal articles and conference papers*
>
> Chadwick, A., 2009. Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in
> an Era of Informational Exuberance. /J/S: Journal of Law and Policy For the
> Information Society/, 5(1), 1-32.
>
> Gueorguieva, V., 2008. Voters, MySpace, and YouTube: The Impact of
> Alternative Communication Channels on the 2006 Election Cycle and Beyond.
> /Social Science Computer Review/, 26(3), 288-300.
>
> Hargittai, E. & Walejko, G. 2008. The Participation Divide: Content
> Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age. /Information, Communication //and
> Society/.11(2):239-256.
>
> Jansen, B. J., Zhang, M, Sobel, K, and Chowdury, A (Forthcoming) Twitter
> Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth. /Journal of the American Society
> for Information Sciences and Technology./
>
> //Karpf, D. 2009. Macaca moments reconsidered… YouTube effects or Netroots
> effects? Submitted for consideration for the YouTube and the 2008 Election
> Conference.
> Leurs, K. 2009. “Be(co)ming cyber Mocro’s: Digital Media, Migration and
> Glocalized Youth Cultures.” Presented at the Race, Ethnicity, and (New)
> Media Symposium, May 2, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.
> Leurs, K. 2009 "Migrant youth & online hypertext: multiple modes of
> becoming/belonging." Presented at the 7th European Feminist Research
> Conference, June 6, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
>
> Lilleker, D.G. & Jackson, N., 2008. Politicians and Web 2.0: the current
> bandwagon or changing the mindset? Paper presented at Politics: Web 2.0: An
> International Conference, Royal Hollloway, UK. Available at:
> http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-20-paper-download/ [Accessed
> December 30, 2008].
>
> Preece, J. and Shneiderman, B., The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating
> technology-mediated social participation, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer
> Interaction 1, 1 (March 2009), 13-32, available at
> http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/ <
> https://webmail.wmin.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/
> >
>
> Williams, C.B. & Gulati, G.J., 2007. Social Networks in Political
> Campaigns: Facebook and the 2006 Midterm Elections. Paper presented at the
> 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago,
> USA. Available at:
> http://www.bentley.edu/news-events/pdf/Facebook_APSA_2007_final.pdf[Accessed November 26, 2008].
>
>
> *Bibliographies*
>
> McNutt, J. Electronic Advocacy Bibliography: Web 2.0. Available at
> http://www.policymagic.org/web2_0.htm
>
>
> *Conferences*
>
> Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference. New Political Communication
> Unit, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway,
> University of London, April 17-18, 2008. Programme and papers available at
> http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/politics-web-2-0-conference/
>
> 4^th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. The
> Pennsylvania State University, June 25-27, 2009. Programme available at
> http://cct2009.ist.psu.edu/program.cfm
>
> *
> *
>
> *Case Studies*
>
> **Peer-to-Patent. http://www.peertopatent.org/
>
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