7-8 November 2008
University of Siegen
Organised by the Research Project ‘Changing Protest and Media Cultures’.
The conference addresses issues of online communication of political protest actors by articularly focussing on the so-called social web, ‘Web 2.0’ as it is called after Tim O’Reilly, and its impact on political campaigning, community formation, transnationalising politics, and overall on the contribution of virtualised protest politics on the formation of a transnational public of publics’ (Bohman). The analysis of the interrelation between campaigning and networking deals with new forms of political mobilisation and highlights options and problems of online-offline-connectivities by giving particular relevance to mass media resonance. Apart from that questions of internal organisation and communication among protest actors and groups come into foreground. As protest networks and campaigns play important functions within new governance structures questions of democratic legitimacy of political protest actors in general as well as aspects of internal democratic decision making in particular have to be discussed.
Complete Call as PDF: http://www.fk615.uni-siegen.de/dokumente/CfP_SocialWeb.pdf
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