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We are glad to see our work cited, more recently Castells and Sklair have used some of our perspective. I am not familiar with the citations shown in the post, but with Internet, stuff gets posted everywhere/anywhere. For folks who want to look it up/have a print reference, the paper we gave at AoIR 1.0, much revised appears as<BR>
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Langman, Lauren, Douglas Morris and Jackie Zalewski, "Cyberactivism and Alternative Globalization Movements", in Wilma A,. Dunaway, ed. Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System. pp. 218 -35. Westport: Conn, Greenwood Press, 2002.<BR>
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We have another paper in press that notes the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, it is concerned with virtual public spheres, will appear (04) in Social Theory. We did an early, power point version at our Midwest Soc and Steve Jones was the commentator. (Will send ppt if asked) <BR>
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For folks in/near Atlanta, Dana Fisher will have a session at ASA, Aug, on soc movements and will do our latest version. <BR>
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Further, I have organized a session for AoIR 4.0 Toronto, with Valerie Scatamburlo, Victor Pikard and Steve Walker on the topic of sm on the net. Do join us. <BR>
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Personal comment: while not well covered in mass media, the internet is empowering people accross the globe and slowly, surely, there is ever more resistance, confrontation against domination-now fascilitated by the net. The extensive use of the net in organizing Porto Alegre and organizing NGOs is amazing, and while demonstrations get press, you know the "crazy criminals" that challenge global power and capitalism, the extent of grass roots organization is where the action is at. <BR>
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For example, as we network, there are major contests between the masses of people in Iran and the theolocratic gerontocracy-and one place this takes place is cyberspace. A major issue besides the political is the moral, pornography abounds. But in this case, much like the old pre net, samistad (sp?) presses in the USSR, pornography, as an exemplar of the grotesque of carnival, as Bakhtin has shown, is a protest, resistance, albiet symbolic, against established authority. Now I am not saying that watching porn> freedom and democracy, it may actually be the other way around, but it does become a point along a policed border on the cultural terrain, where established power is challenged. (I am doing a paper for a book on cyberporn if anyone has any ideas, please send), <BR>
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Hope to see all at AiOR 4.0 <BR>
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