Articles+and+Websites

=**Peer Review Academic Articles**=

Neumayer, Christina and Celina Raffl (2008) "Facebook for Global Protest: The Potential and Limits of Social Software for Grassroots Activism" from //Prato CIRN 2008 Community Informatics Conference: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality?// **[|read here]**

**Communication Review special issue: “Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent” **
 * //The Communication Review//**

Volume 14, Issue 3, 2011

Special Issue: //Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent// Guest Editor: Christian Christensen

**Introduction: Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent** Christian Christensen

**The Agonistic Social Media: Cyberspace in the Formation of Dissent and Consolidation of State Power in Postelection Iran** Babak Rahimi

**Alternative Media and Social Networking Sites: The Politics of Individuation and Political Participation** Natalie Fenton & Veronica Barassi

**Social Media and the Organization of Collective Action: Using Twitter to Explore the Ecologies of Two Climate Change Protests** Alexandra Segerberg & W. Lance Bennett

**When Do States Disconnect Their Digital Networks? Regime Responses to the Political Uses of Social Media** Philip N. Howard, Sheetal D. Agarwal & Muzammil M. Hussain

**Discourses of Technology and Liberation: State Aid to Net Activists in an Era of “Twitter Revolutions”** Christian Christensen =

= = = =**Trade & News Journalism**=


 * //Occupy Wall Street//**

Michael Hayne on Marines reportedly coming to protect protesters []

Brown Power at Occupy Wall St. Blog commentary on race and power at Occupy Wall St statement meeting []

Eric Morningstar's photos on facebook []

David Graeber, "Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers Radical Imagination" in Comment Is Free Guardian online []

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City []

Chris Hedges #Occupy Together []

Lisa Romero "What the Media Aren't Telling You About American Protests" []

News Roundup []

New York Times "A Protest's Ink-Stained Fingers" []

Article on the importance of Tahrir square [|__http://places.designobserver.com/feature/tahrir-square-social-media-public-space/25108/__]
 * //The Arab Spring//**

BBC News summary of uprising [|__http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12418163__]

Article on overstatement of the role of social media [|__http://blogs.computerworld.com/17810/is_the_role_of_social_media_in_egypt_being_overstated__]

CNN article pro-facebook revolution label (lots of reposts including on mashable) -some interesting points on virtual communities to compare to discussion above on importance of ‘real’ space of the public square [|__http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-24/tech/facebook.revolution_1_facebook-wael-ghonim-social-media?_s=PM:TECH__]

Critique of facebook revolution, wikileaks parody ad and appropriation by marketers (vodaphone) of revolution [|__http://thenextweb.com/me/2011/07/10/why-egypt-wasnt-waiting-for-wikileaks-to-ignite-a-revolution/__]

Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article [|__http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Article on social media and indy journalism in Tunisia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/15/tunisia-protests-the-facebook-revolution.html__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Net Delusin author in Guardian on facebook revolution <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/07/facebook-twitter-revolutionaries-cyber-utopians__]