New Eastern European Journal on activism and new media

Issue 1 of the journal is now available.

Issue I - Contents

Issue Editorial

 Balázs Bodó: Academic research into activism and new media – the anatomy of a mésalliance

New urban spaces of political action

 Merlyna Lym: Cyber-Urban Activism and the Political Change in Indonesia
 Kiril Avramov: Spray Can Politics: Strengthening Party Identity in Post-Socialist Sofia
 Laura Forlano: Activist infrastructures: The Role of Community Wireless Organizations in Authenticating the City

Too smart (?) computers: genealogies of e-utopia and e-dystopia

 Richard Barbrook: New York prophecies: the imaginary future of artificial intelligence
 Ferenc Hammer: Strange but responsive bedfellows: Single-issue activism and the media
 Giovanni Navarria: The Three Faces of Government in the Age of the Internet and the future of Activism within a condition of shared weakness

The political economy of digital culture production

 Dave Berry: Beyond Public and Private: Reconceptualising Collective Ownership
 Samuel Howard-Spink: Activism Remixed: Downhill Battle’s role in the copyfight
 Bettina Fabos: The Commercial Search Engine Industry and Alternatives to the Oligopoly
 Robert Horvitz: Media Licensing, Convergence and Globalization

Cyber guerillas, cyber partisans

 Chris Bailey: The Liverpool dockworkers’ strike 1995-98 and the Internet
 Dan Mercea: Exploding Iconography: the Mindbomb Project
 Klaus Schönberger: How false information creates ‘true events.’ Persistent and recombined forms of activist communication through internet fakes and hoaxes

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