[ecrea] Invitation: Social Movements and Media Technologies

The Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths is 
delighted to invite you to the first event of the:

Social Movements and Media Technologies: Present Challenges and Future 
Developments ESRC 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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