[ecrea] Invitation to mobilisations, changing protest cultures and web 2.0 technologies

We would like to invite you to  the first event of the *Social Movements 
and Media Technologies: Present Challenges and Future Developments 
Seminar Series*.The Seminar Series is jointly organised by the Centre
for Global Media and Democracy (CGMD) at Goldsmiths University of London
and the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), European University
Institute Florence.

The aim of the series, which will take place in 2015 and 2016 for a
total of six seminars,  is to tackle and critically understand one of
the crucial societal changes of our times: the relationship between
political participation and media technologies.

The first seminar *MOBILISATIONS, CHANGING PROTEST CULTURES AND WEB 2.0
TECHNOLOGIES *will be held at

Centre for Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths University of London,
UK – 14th and 15th of May, 2015 (Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG02
and 314)


This first workshop will look at contemporary ‘protest cultures’ and
explore the changing relationship between political participation and
media technologies in the age of social media by considering three
different dimensions a) organisation b) political imaginations c) lived
experience. Scholars and activists will be invited to discuss this
relationship by considering culturally and context specific examples.
The aim of this workshop is to overcome much of the ethnocentric bias,
which can be found in current research, to enable processes of
meaningful comparison and to develop a critical and culturally sensitive
approach to the analysis of Web 2.0 and social movements.


ALL WELCOMED. This is a free event for anyone interested. However,
spaces are limited so make sure that you register your interest by
writing to (v.barassi /at/ gold.ac.uk) by the 8th of May, 2015.


Best Wishes

Veronica Barassi and Alice Mattoni



PROGRAMME


DAY 1 - 14 MAY 2015


09:30 -10:30 REGISTRATION


10:00-12:30
SESSION ONE - Beyond Networks? Changing Organisational Patterns and
Social Movement Research
Chair: Veronica Barassi, Goldsmiths, University of London


Elena Pavan, Trento University - Collective Action Networks. A
Multidimensional Network Approach


Anastasia Kavada, Westminster University - The Communicative
Constitution of Collective Action: Insights from the Occupy Movement.


Paolo Gerbaudo, Kings College London – From networks to crowds:
understanding

subjectivities and imaginaries in two generations of digital activism


Ella McPherson, Cambridge University – Digital Human Rights Reporting by
Civilian Witnesses and the Verification Problem


14:00-15:00

KEYNOTE SPEECH

Prof. Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona

When Information Isn’t Scarce: Political Communication as a New Frontier
in Social Movement Studies


15:30- 18:00
SESSION TWO - Transforming Political Imaginations: Web 2.0 and Political
Repertoires
Chair: Alice Mattoni, European University Institute


Lina Dencik, Cardiff University – The Changing Repertoires of Worker
Resistance in the Digital Age


Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam - We Come in Peace: Inside
Hacktivists’ Imaginaries and Repertoires


Adrienne Russell, Denver University - Journalism as Activism:
Representing and Shaping Social Change in the Contemporary Media Landscape


Simona Levi, XNet – The Experience of X-Net and Digital Activism,
changing repertoires of protest: be radical, ask for the possible


DAY 2 – 15 MAY 2015

10:00 -12:30


  SESSION THREE - Web 2.0 and Political Participation in Cross-Cultural
Perspective Chair: Veronica Barassi, Goldsmiths, University of London


Mirca Madianou, Goldsmiths University of London – #PeopleSurge: protest,
politics and (lack of) solidarity in post-disaster Philippines.


Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics - Movement Spillovers
through Technologies of Self-Mediation - The case of the anti-austerity
movement


Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths University of London - The importance of
‘social’ in social media: contradictions and limits of digital activism
in Iran


Dhiraj Murthy, Goldsmiths University of London - From the Grim Sleeper
to Ferguson: are urban black people turning to Twitter to mobilize?


14:00-15:00
ROUND UP DISCUSSION – Present Challenges and Future Developments in the
Study of Web 2.0 Technologies and Social Movements
Chair: Alice Mattoni, European University Institute







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