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Church, city, media: how the message of #OccupyLondon is being disrupted

OccupyLondon's encampment is facing eviction from outside St Paul's cathedral. The Church of England and City of London Corporation are in turmoil. Meanwhile, the media frenzy is in danger of drowning out the message of the occupation.

By Jamie Mackay

/ 1 Nov 2011

E-Petition for an English Parliament: Why you should sign it

Independence for England is supported by over 35% of English residents, yet politicians doggedly avoid the 'English question'. Now it's time to break through parliament's silence.

By David Rickard

/ 30 Oct 2011

The Russian state and surveillance technology

The Russian blogosphere has burgeoned into a open-door sanctuary for all strands of political opinion. Predictably, it has also attracted the attention of the country's security services. Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov present the first in a series of investigations outlining how the Russian st

By Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

/ 25 Oct 2011

Intellectuals against the public sphere: how to do debate better than Evgeny Morozov's tear-down

Evgeny Morozov, an engaging thinker whom we have enjoyed publishing on openDemocracy, produced an intemperate review of a peer's book. Here, that peer responds in an exemplary way. An attempt to shut down conversation has, in the best sort of Streisand effect, back-fired and opened it up.

By Jeff Jarvis

/ 25 Oct 2011

Radical media, stop fighting the mainstream - instead, let's build the future

Radical media are wasting too much energy competing with the mainstream. They should return to their great strength: discovering new ways of 'doing' media in the service of progressive change.

By James Hamilton

/ 25 Oct 2011

Reproduction of movement(s) without organisation: #UKUncut, #OWS, #OccupyMovement

A global day of collective action in 82 countries shook the world on October 15, 2011. Yet the protests were not co-ordinated by political parties, unions or other institutional actors. They were driven by the rapid dissemination of memes, made possible by the internet.

By Aaron Bastani

/ 18 Oct 2011

#OccupyLondon: not the beginning or the end, but a momentous opportunity

The first weekend of the London occupation felt victorious, as the protesters established their own democracy and showed solidarity with a growing global movement. Even if it is soon disbanded, this is one step forward in an ongoing struggle.

By Hilary Aked

/ 18 Oct 2011

The Revolution Will Be Digitised: dispatches from the information war

Heather Brooke uncovered the MPs expenses scandal and played a key role in the Wikileaks project. Her new book explores the emancipatory consequences of digitisation, as well as the potential for new forms of oppression.

By John Booth

/ 11 Oct 2011

Joining up the dots: Steve Jobs, Slavoj Žižek and "good capitalism"

Watch the moving and inspirational commencement speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford in 2005. From the story of his birth to the daily awareness of his death, he joins up the dots to write the personal story. But those dots are part of a larger context of what has made the technology industry a

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 7 Oct 2011

Murdoch and Berlusconi: the fall of two media empires and the network multitudes

The simultaneous fall of the Murdoch and Berlusconi media empires – symbolic of an epoch – is not a coincidence but part of a deep global change in which the exponential growth of horizontal communication networks plays a central role. In this global epoch, despite the thin line between new democr

By Giorgio Griziotti

/ 30 Sep 2011

Anatomy of a Networked Riot: rapid violence, rapid response

Social networking has come under fire since England's week of riots and looting. But the same tools that facilitated a rapid escalation of violence also allowed citizens to organize a speedy response.

By Catherine Dempsey

/ 13 Sep 2011

The Localism Bill: towards democracy or small-state Conservatism?

The Localism Bill's stated aim is to shift power from Westminster into the hands of local people. But will it strengthen England's democracy, or simply shrink the size of the state?

By Andrew MacDonald

/ 12 Sep 2011