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Published in: openDemocracyUKA New World in the Shell of the Old: prefigurative politics, direct action, educationOnline networks are increasingly seen as of huge importance for how social movements organise - be it in Wisconsin,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInfoEnclosure 2.0Web 2.0 is a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Facebook Purge: Corporate power, political influence and the need for independent, powerfully popular social media networks
If Facebook have acted at the request of a state body then the ‘Facebook Purge’ of activist accounts in the UK...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBlack Bloc: aesthetics won't beat the cutsLuke Cooper responds to Jonathan Moses' article on the Black Bloc. He argues that the group's "aesthetic wars" can...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn defence of Black Bloc
The state, with its monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, can afford to be idiotic in its analysis of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Open-Sourcing of Political Activism: How the internet and networks help build resistance
The fallout from the TUC demonstration on March 26th, which saw the mass arrest of peaceful UK Uncut activists...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK Uncut, responsibility and the logic of networked activism
Much of the critical rhetoric attacking UKUncut's choice not to denounce the violence on March 26th fails to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy UK Uncut can and should denounce the violence
UK Uncut must condemn the violence on Saturday 26 March. The network has formed around common views - such as an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK Uncut cannot denounce the violence on 26 March
Those most heavily involved in UKUncut are under enormous pressure to denounce the violence on behalf of the rest of...
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Published in: HomeThe freedom cloud
The tools that help Arab democracy protesters also extend the reach of three United States corporations. The power...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho decides what we access on the Internet?: Web blocking and its dangers
Another March, another web blocking proposal. The Guardian reported last week that Ed Vaizey MP, one of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDigital activism and the anti-cuts agenda
Outrage at the Coalition's austerity programme and the capacity for digital networked communications have given rise...
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