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Zuckerman on the democratic limits and possibilities of the internet
via Heather Horst and DML Central The media scholar and internet activist Ethan Zuckerman recently gave a lecture at Flinders University (Australia) titled “The Emergence of Digital Civics”. Here’s a...
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What happened to Occupy?
by Natasha Lennard via @Salon Malcolm Harris, editor at The New Inquiry. The prankster who brought crowds to Zuccotti Park with false rumors of a Radiohead concert, Harris also had information from his...
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How Occupy birthed a rhizome
by Joan Donovan | September 17, 2012, via WagingNonViolence.org [...] By being involved in Occupy protests, I amplified my associations with all kinds of humans, broke with the norms of public decency...
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Public protest in a digitised world: reflections on the Indignados and Occupy...
Paper to the Anthropology Department, Oslo University 21 November 2012 John Postill RMIT University, Melbourne Abstract The wave of protests that struck the world in 2011 has generated a great deal of...
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Two diametrically opposed views on the #Occupy movement
Two wildly different takes on the Occupy movement have recently found their way into my Twitter feed. Both deserve careful consideration (watch this blogspace): Take One: Bank of England official:...
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The challenge of the present continuous
By Oscar Hemer, Glocal Times No 17/18 (2012) When, in the spring of 2010, we started the planning of the present special issue, in collaboration with the academic journal Nordicom Review, we did not...
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The mainstreaming of nerd politics and other social movement trends
I’m being interviewed over Skype by Anneli Tostar of The Harvard Crimson about social movements. Here are some quick preparatory notes for the record, although I suspect the conversation will move in...
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How exactly do new media shape contemporary protests?
Extract from Juris, J. S. (2012), Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation. American Ethnologist, 39: 259–279. doi:...
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Swarms need hives: Paolo Gerbaudo on the 2011 wave of protests
Extracts from Paolo Gerbaudo, Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. London and New York: Pluto Books, 2012. p. 27-28 ‘If Castells… was the [late 1990s] social theorist of the...
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Public anthropology in times of media hybridity and global upheaval
Postill, J. forthcoming. Public anthropology in times of media hybridity and global upheaval. In S. Abram and S. Pink (eds.) Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement. Oxford: Berghahn. [PDF] Abstract...
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The uneven convergence of digital freedom activism and popular protest
To cite: Postill, J. 2013. The uneven convergence of digital freedom activism and popular protest: a global theory of the new protest movements. Melbourne: RMIT University. Available at:...
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We are the 1%: rethinking national elites as protest participants
Essay submitted to Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom). See [PDF] Suggested citation: Postill, J. 2013. We are the 1%: rethinking national elites as protest participants. Melbourne: RMIT...
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The multilinearity of protest
Forthcoming chapter to appear in Othon Alexandrakis (ed). Method Acting: The Anthropology of New Social Movements. [PDF] To cite: Postill, J. 2013. The multilinearity of protest: understanding new...
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New protest movements and the mainstreaming of internet politics
New protest movements and the mainstreaming of internet politics: a ground-up comparison of Malaysia, Iceland, Tunisia and Spain Paper to the Anthropology Department seminar, University of Melbourne,...
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The year of the freedom technologist
By John Postill. Republished from Savage Minds This is the first in a series of 42 blog posts devoted to exploring the connection between freedom technologists and the new protest movements. See the...
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Freedom technologists and their practices
This is the second in a series of 42 blog posts devoted to exploring the connection between freedom technologists and the new protest movements. See the first post here, the next post here, the whole...
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How Spain’s indignados movement was born
In this third instalment of the freedom technologists series we hear the extraordinary story of the IT specialist Daniel Vázquez, one of the original occupiers of Puerta del Sol square, in Madrid,...
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The Mediterranean Spring
In this post the Spanish-Syrian blogger and activist Leila Nachawati recounts her participation in Spain’s indignados (15M) movement in the wake of the Arab Spring, as well as her efforts to explain...
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10. Freedom technologists series: a first recap (part 2)
http://autoconsulta.org/mutaciones.php This post completes the first recap of the ongoing freedom technologists series through a brief theoretical exercise, namely applying field theory to the...
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Aggregation vs. networking: a conversation between Paolo Gerbaudo and Jeff Juris
These are the first few exchanges of an ongoing public conversation between the social movements scholars Paolo Gerbaudo and Jeff Juris, with Sasha Constanza-Shock and myself chipping in as required....
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