[ecrea] Digital Activism Panel at ISA 2016 conference Austria

I am organising a panel on digital activism at the International
Sociological Association (ISA) 3rd Forum of Sociology in Vienna,
Austria, July 10-14 2016 and this is a call for abstracts from
researchers working on this issue.

The session titled “From Indymedia to #Occupywallstreet and
Anti-Austerity Protests in Europe: Three Generations of Digital Activism
Logics” aims at exploring the cultural and technological evolution of
digital activism in the last decades. You find a description abstract of
the panel below.

To submit an abstract for the conference, please use this link
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogrampreliminary/Session6884.html

The deadline is September 30th 2015.

Please contact me if you need further information on the session.

Best,


Paolo Gerbaudo

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 From Indymedia to #Occupywallstreet and Anti-Austerity Protests in
Europe: Three Generations of Digital Activism Logics

Across the last few decades the logic of activism, and of digital
activism in particular, has changed dramatically. We have experienced
what could be regarded as three waves of protests from the early 1990s
to the present. Each of these waves is connected both by the
transformations in global capitalism and the rise of the digital age,
while still displaying differences or rather developments in
movement-based organizing. Together, however, we can conceive these
three waves as part of one broader epoch of contention. Those particular
waves of contention are: Global Social Justice, Occupy/Arab Spring,
Syriza/Podemos.
In this session, we propose to look at the logics of these waves of
protest (or generations of digital activism) in order to explore their
similarities and differences. The goal would be to mine history assuming
a diachronic perspective, but more concretely to understand the
strengths and weaknesses of this epoch of contention as we watch the
current wave of struggle unfold.
Some of the questions that will be tackled in the session are:


• How have capitalist transformations informed the emergence of the
current epoch of contention and how has the activists relation to
communication technologies evolved and shaped the logics of protests and
mobilizations?
• Can we conceive of an underlying meta-logics of movement politics
informing the waves of protests and how are they best conceptualized,
similar as well as differently enacted?
• What has been the evolution of the role of alternative media in an
oversaturated media environment where corporate social media are
increasingly dominating the digital activism scenario?
• What are the challenges that social movements and their communication
face when they crystallize into political parties?
• What lessons have we learned from the analysis of this epoch of
contention and what are the future horizons of digital activism and protest?


Dr Paolo Gerbaudo,
Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society,
Culture, Media and Creative Industries Department,
Room 217A, 2nd Floor,
Norfolk Building,
King's College London,
Strand,
London WC2R 2LS, England
Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576


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