Posts Tagged: activism

Simona Levi – Tactics 2.0: Learn in the Net, Act Everywhere

By Andrew Erlanger, March 25, 2013

The tools of the web pose unique opportunities to transform overarching political structures, spawning real and positive change at a fundamental level. Rounding out the second day of Unlike Us #3, Spanish activist Simona Levi took the stage to reflect on what we’ve learned from the internet and how this might be extrapolated to all [...]

Miriyam Aouragh – Social Media as Damocles Sword: The Internet for Arab Activists

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 24, 2013

Miriyam Aouragh’s work with cyberpolitics in the Middle East as well as cyberwarfare in the context of Arab-Israeli conflict has revealed that even scholarly engagement ignores to a large extent the non-media ecology of the Arab activists of the Internet world. In these very special contexts, the materiality of technology is inescapable – her discussion today focuses [...]

Unlike Us #2: Interview with Jodi Dean

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, March 20, 2012

  After her inspiring view on society’s non-existence in relation to social media at the Unlike Us #2 conference on the 9th of March 2012, we got the change to ask Jodi Dean some questions to further explore ‘the social’ and the existence of social media platforms in a capitalist society. (Michelle)  Is building alternatives [...]

Stefania Milan on Cloud Protesting

By orsolyagulyas, March 10, 2012

The very last session of Unlike Us #2, Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology, was a culmination of what was in the air from the beginning of the conference. As Oliver Leistert has posed in his introduction to the session, the question is how does social media change activism, how does it [...]

Unlike Us #1: Achilles Peklaris – Send tweets. Not troops.

By marcstumpel, December 1, 2011

A blog report from Unlike Us #1 Limassol, 23-11-2011. In the session ‘Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology’, Greek journalist and activist Achilles Peklaris’ talk ‘Send tweets, not troops’  focussed on a shift in diplomacy methods and tactics of the United States. According to Peklaris social network dynamics have a major impact [...]