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 [...]

Eleanor Saitta: Networks and Nation States

By Nicola Bozzi, March 10, 2012

Hacker, artist and writer Eleanor Saitta started her presentation by tracing quite a bleak scenario of the current global situation. As overpopulation and global warming expose the limits of the human presence on Earth, financial capitalism appropriates sociality, under the disguise of normal companies like Facebook. States try and keep their controlling position, while at [...]

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

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

Eleanor Saitta: Networks and Nation States