Networking Issue
Networking Issue: Letter from the Editor
How does the online environment influence activism?
Creating Social Capital in Politically Restrictive Environments: The Virtual Sphere and Iran’s Weblogistan
Can civic engagement in the virtual sphere allow repressed societies to create social capital equivalent to that seen in the open, democratic physical sphere?
Iran in Ferment
By 2009, the public was primed to vote Ahmadinejad out, but activists were feeling vulnerable and isolated after years of savage persecution.
Berlin, Bam, New Media, and Transnational Networks
The virtual spaces were initially seen primarily as safe places to make connections; later there was increased interaction between members of the diaspora and those inside Iran.
Creating the Impossible: The Invisible Network of Britain’s Activist Subculture
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Camus
The Networked Diaspora
For as long as people have looked for new opportunities, resources and biotopes, migration has taken place.
As Strong as Our Signal
What happens to all those narratives we post, like, re-tweet, forward, share, forward, and paste after we’re done with them?
Iran’s reformists and activists: Internet exploiters
The political use of the Internet by two of Iran’s distinct social movements, women’s-rights activists and the reformist ulama (clerics), reveals the innovative force of this new medium.
The Death of the “Twitter Revolution” and the Struggle over Internet Narratives
Any elements that make controlling the internet difficult for authoritarian regimes also make it difficult to use as a targeted tool of intervention.