Mobiles and protest: four areas in need of further theorisation
Extract from Monterde, A. and J. Postill 2014. Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados. In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds.)…
Tag: activism
Students for Zero Waste: Post-Landfill Action Network Conference (Oct 9-10)
The 2nd Annual Students for Zero Waste Conference will be held October 9th-10th at the University of New Hampshire campus. It’s a great opportunity for student activists and…
Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism?
By Aaron Vansintjan. How the food industry made waste ‘benevolent’. Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism?
Review of The Logic of Connective Action by Bennett and Segerberg
The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics. W.L. Bennett and A. Segerberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 240 pp. John Postill RMIT…
21. Review of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books, 2014. 464 pp. John Postill RMIT University Melbourne, 12 June 2015 forthcoming, Americ…
How the Ocean Cleanup Array Fundamentally Misunderstands Marine Plastics and Causes Harm
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Ocean Cleanup array, designed to clean plastics from the ocean like a baleen whale, is one of these…
Barcelona’s local elections in the global spotlight
Less than a week ago, on 24 May 2015, local and regional elections were held across Spain. In Barcelona, Madrid and other major cities, new anti-establishment candidates either…
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stockpile of Keystone XL pipes near Buffalo, South Dakota. Photo by David Bond. Politics makes visible that which had no reason to be seen. —Jacques Rancière Whether ultimately…
20. Hacking politics: civic struggles to politicize technologies
This is the 20th of 42 posts in the ongoing Freedom technologists series. By Sebastian Kubitschko via Civic Media Project Despite the longstanding equating of hacking as infused…
18. Political technologists and civil society
By Muzammil M. Hussain This is the eighteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. The following are some passages taken (with permission) from chapter 4 of Hussain, M.…
17. Digital rights in Southeast Asia and beyond: a review of RightsCon 2015
Update 1 April 2015: See also PDF version. Last week I was in Manila to attend the 4th meeting of the RightsCon series, held on 24-25 March 2015.…
16. A letter from Jakarta
Many years ago, in 1987, I left Madrid and came to Jakarta to become a journalist. For about a year, I was a trainee at Tempo magazine and…
15. Location technologists: the politics of digital media in a ‘special region’ of Indonesia
Chapter proposal to Location Technologies in International Context, Rowan Wilken (Swinburne Uni of Tech), Gerard Goggin (U of Sydney) & Heather Horst (RMIT), eds. John Postill RMIT University…
14. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements
This draft article is the fourteenth post in the freedom technologists series. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements: the case of Spain’s ‘real democracy turn’,…
Workshop note on digital media and socio-political change
By Victor Lasa On 20 February 2015, Dr John Postill convened a workshop with fellow RMIT scholars and research students around the topic of “Digital media and socio-political…
Lezing: Over de grens – Politiek, islam en activisme in Nederland
Naar aanleiding van het rapport Eilanden in een zee van ongeloof – Het verzet van de activistische daʿwa in België, Nederland en Duitsland spraken onderzoekers, activisten, en vertegenwoordigers…
Becoming aware of Awareness-Raising as anti-trafficking tactic
My Google Alerts are now full of nonsensical items on behalf of a Trafficking Awareness Month in the USA. I first discovered Awareness Raising when I began to…
“Een eiland in een zee van ongeloof”: het activistische verzet van moslims in Nederland, België en Duitsland
“Een eiland in een zee van ongeloof”: het activistische verzet van moslims in Nederland, België en Duitsland Auteurs: Martijn de Koning Ineke Roex Carmen Becker Pim Aarns…
Assholes Damage Precious Line in the Nazca Region
I find it hard to believe that anybody would consciously wreck a famous and important archaeological site, but it seems that my incredulity is at odds with reality.…
‘Homeless Youth’ – a local collaborative film project
@Porchlight1974 @KentSAC @CTunaker @Pelaris #homelessyouth #appliedanthropology Carin Tunaker is a PhD student in social anthropology at the University of Kent. Her research examines the conditions …
‘Sex Work is Not Sex Trafficking’: An idea whose time has not come
Anti-prostitution advocates routinely use absurd over-simplications to make their crusade crystal-clear easy to understand. Campaigning works better when arguments are black and white and slogans are …
Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
I am looking forward to being in Hamburg, Germany, in August, for this unusually interesting event. My own talk is called Disqualified: Why sex workers suffer social death…
Student Debt and Activism in New Zealand
This post was taken from Hollie’s Honours research thesis and has also been posted on the Savage Minds blog. “University students blocked Auckland’s Symonds Street as the…
Student Debt and Activism in New Zealand
This post was taken from Hollie’s Honours research thesis and has also been posted on the Savage Minds blog. “University students blocked Auckland’s Symonds Street as the…