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To be politically correct, say nothing

March 17, 2016 by Zornitsa Pavlova

Following my post on The Illusion of free internet, let me share with you some interesting short lectures on the freedom of speech. Greg Lukianoff, President of Foundation of Individual Rights in Education discusses the line between permitted, acceptable and politically correct speech on one hand, and forbidden, unwanted and not tolerable expression of thoughts … [Read more…]

Posted in: Social change Tagged: christianity, freedom of speech, politically correct, radical Islam

Click here to SAVE THE WORLD

March 15, 2016 by Zornitsa Pavlova

Did you click? When did you stop? I clicked to the very end and it led me to the facebook main page (after the UNCR donation prompt). Not that unexpected, I should say (although in reality I don’t have a facebook account. Weird? Yes, I am weird in my own way). The post is not … [Read more…]

Posted in: Internet, New Media Activism and Gender, Social change, Social media Tagged: clicktivism, donations, save the world, slacktivism, social change, social media, support cause

The illusion of ‘free’ internet

March 1, 2016 by Zornitsa Pavlova

Facebook’s Drones Will Battle Google’s Balloons to Spread Internet Access (1) Occasionally getting out of communications range is healthy for all of us,” added Google co-founder Sergey Brin, “but if it’s part of your daily life and you don’t have access to the information and the ability to communicate with people important to you that’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Internet Tagged: censorship, free access to information, free internet, freedom of speech, internet control, pipa, sopa, surveillance

Making the internet a better place #spreadharmony

February 24, 2016 by Rebecca Steglich

As already discussed in the previous posts, the internet remains a contested space providing fertile ground for any kind of activism – be it for bad or for good. While the internet offers great potential for social change, it also supports the rise of so-called ‘toxic technocultures’. Online spaces can enable creativity, innovation and fruitful debate. … [Read more…]

Posted in: New Media Activism and Gender, Social media Tagged: #gamergate, censorship, free speech, gender, online activism, online harassment, social media, The Fappening

The power of social media to unite

February 22, 2016 by Zornitsa Pavlova

If I did not see it, it does not exist. Sounds like words, spoken from Thomas, the disciple of Jesus. (1) Yet, in many senses, we are like Thomas in our everyday lives. We may hear news about events happening in our neighboring country or on the other side of the world, but our minds … [Read more…]

Posted in: Social media Tagged: arab spring, demand change, meaningful change, moral question of social media, organize, social change, social media, tool to communicate, twitter revolution

Digi-Blogging Gender Violence: Intersecting Ethnicity, Race, Migration and Globalization in South Asian Community Blogs Against IPV

February 18, 2016 by Rebecca Steglich

Building on the previous post, I just had to share this very interesting article. In this essay, Ishani Mukherjee explores how ethnicity, race, immigration and experiences of intimate partner violence by South Asian women in the US intersect with/in the structure of gendered, global digital communities and diaspora blogs. It shows an example of how blogs can … [Read more…]

Posted in: New Media Activism and Gender Tagged: blogging, gender, gender violence, globalization, immigration, migration, minorities, new media activism, race

Reflections about online spaces, gender and Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons

February 17, 2016 by Rebecca Steglich

Online spaces present very complex environments. Boundaries between art, politics and everyday life are blurred. Virtual spaces may offer a great deal of emancipatory potential, and, yet, the Internet reflects and reproduces problematic social structures, such as capitalism, patriarchy and racism. In their article about feminist research in online spaces, Morrow et al. question the … [Read more…]

Posted in: New Media Activism and Gender Tagged: feminism, feminist research, gender, Internet, online spaces, Wikipedia

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  • The illusion of ‘free’ internet
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