-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/09/14 07:52 AM, marc garrett wrote: > [P2P-F] Win a copy of “OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social > Media in Crisis Capitalism”
I'm reading this at the moment, so it's already out. :-) I'm really enjoying it so far. It's written in a slightly portentious but very clear style, with an academic eye for detail and citation and a populist eye for clarity and relevance. What I like about the book so far is that in addition to a clear explanation of the theory it's applying, it is based on sociological research rather than ex cathedra pontification. That research is Internet-based, but as the book argues so is the phenomenon it's studying. Well worth winning a copy of. :-) > The book discusses the contradiction between commercial and > alternative social media and argues that the existence of a > surveillance-industrial complex expressed in the PRISM system shows > the urgent necessity to create social media beyond Facebook and > Google. The urgent necessity is to use the tools we have. Unlike the year zero nonsense of "The People's Platform", "OccupyMedia!" has the example of its research to show which tools people are using (and that more of us can use). SHAMELESS PLUG: GNU social is gaining more servers all the time - http://gnu.io/social/try/ . In related news, with the third anniversary of Occupy there's been a spate of Occupy articles, trying to make the case for the movement's legacy (or not). http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/occupy-movement-takes-student-debt http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/occupy-wall-street-3-years-old_n_5838466.html http://www.ibtimes.com/occupy-wall-street-failure-ows-2014-marks-survival-brand-blurred-purpose-1690198 https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/09/18/occupy-wall-street/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUHclzAAoJECciMUAZd2dZLMkH/0weos0PSMf8hFKStx2nmVNP GKP4pJ393cPyyjYGmHrinoif77hTGLNb6DabheuewpavcGtGTsTNsZaimDW0T+2v K5JUwUp1E9TBR4wK0bbETVL72DQBZfujwObvATE/agIbrx9bfFkeulMfD/e4yxQC P/+Lb+WZTuDKdD8oZgLK85kL2wEEDrdKCRbGGC9HfORbaJrX+i6E4mMtzuQACmSU 3iat75ilZFt4YG8SJAmNmMyZrj1WLiCYZzm+jtmFnc/NHn+WWMkvNt2vm5PQpKFy EHmrEB86z93z1LMvIoGbuLmux/EHk/NcA/YgTaLdlQpvEnvFj2M9uj+RHho2bgI= =svoT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
