Media & communications - openDemocracy (Page 151)

Unions, it's time to join the information age

It’s time for unions to embrace the information age and develop an online, global, networked social movement unionism

/ 27 May 2011

The Communication Commons: resisting the recuperation of the internet by capital

Is the 'information revolution' truly revolutionary? The internet presents us with a choice. Either we permit the recuperation of the web by capital – or we resist, and insist on the values of the commons

By Aaron Bastani

/ 25 May 2011

A war of rhetoric: the Israel-Palestine vortex

A fevered dispute in the media contest over Israel-Palestine is an object lesson in the deformities of internet-fuelled public debate on this issue, says Keith Kahn-Harris.

By Keith Kahn-Harris

/ 23 May 2011

The Spanish protests and the need for politics and conflict

The popular uprising of Spanish youth has been inspiring to observe, but its call for radical democracy should not be confused with a "post-political" approach to social change

By Guy Aitchison

/ 23 May 2011

The 'Spanish revolution' and the Commons: a Tale of Two Tweets

While hundreds arrived at the Spanish Embassy in London to support the protesters in Spain, the Labour-run Progress Annual Conference was in full swing. The pair of events demonstrate two very different responses to the recession of politics and finance

By search for

/ 23 May 2011

Egypt, Bahrain, London, Spain - Tahrir Square as a meme

Certain tropes of struggle are spreading mimetically between movements against poverty, corruption and austerity measures. The Tahrir Square meme has been taken up across Africa, the Middle East and Europe, with its latest incarnation in Puerta De Sol in Madrid this week

By Deterritorial Support

/ 23 May 2011

Power and the Media in Britain - where do we go from here?

The media are a power in their own right, and are connected to political, economic and social forms of power. OurKingdom launches a new debate to probe this relation, with an aim to discover what we want from our British media - and how to get it

By Dan Hind

/ 18 May 2011

A New World in the Shell of the Old: prefigurative politics, direct action, education

Online networks are increasingly seen as of huge importance for how social movements organise - be it in Wisconsin, Cairo or London. However, what is missing is the recognition that online, commons-based forms of production are methods of political contention and practice in their own right

By Aaron Bastani

/ 13 May 2011

Two arrests, a suspension, accusations of Islamophobia: Nottingham University must submit to a public enquiry

A professor was suspended earlier this month after publicly criticising the University of Nottingham's actions three years ago, over the arrest of a student and staff member on terrorism charges. Ryan Gallagher states the case for a public enquiry into the arrests of Sabir and Yezza, both released

By Ryan Gallagher

/ 13 May 2011

An improbable team

It took an unlikely combination of talents to start building openDemocracy’s Tower of Babel, comments one of its founders

By Susan Richards

/ 12 May 2011

The student 'Fight Back' is still going strong

Since the release of Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest in February, much has occurred in the British student movement to give the collection new relevancy.Yesterday, the Free Hetherington occupation at Glasgow University celebrated a hundred days of occupation. OurKingdom has taken the

By Niki Seth-Smith

/ 12 May 2011

Weaving networks: the growing conversation of the world

Paul Hilder was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of openDemocracy.net. He is now Director of Campaigns for the UK arm of Oxfam, the global development movement.

By Paul Hilder

/ 12 May 2011