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University of Siegen Conference: "Social Web - Towards Networked Protest Politics?"
The Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Siegen, hosts a conference on the interrelations of social movements and digital networks.
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2008-11-07 00:00
to 2008-11-08 00:00 |
| Where | Siegen, Germany |
| Contact Name | Johanna Niesyto |
| Contact Email | johanna.niesyto@uni-siegen.de |
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University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang 50, D-57076 Siegen.
Organised by Changing Protest and Media Cultures.
Funded by the German Research Foundation.
The conference addresses issues of online communication of political protest actors by particularly focussing on the so-called social web, ‘Web 2.0’ as it is called after Tim O’Reilly, and its impact on political campaigning, community formation, transnationalising politics, and overall on the contribution of virtualised protest politics on the formation of a transnational ‘public of publics’ (Bohman).
Keynote speakers include:
Panel #1:Dieter Rucht, Social Science Research Center Berlin, D
Panel #2: Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam, NL
Panel #3: Peter J. Smith/Elizabeth Smythe, Athabasca University /University College of Alberta, CDN
Panel #4: James Bohman, Saint Louis University, USA