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'''Workshop: Understanding the New Wave of Social Cooperation: Triangulation of Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy Movement'''  
[[Image:IMG 2339.JPG|650px|thumb|Participants workshop March 21, 2011]]
9:00am-6:00pm
[[Image:Puertadelsol2011.jpg‎|300px|thumb|The Puerta del Sol square in Madrid May 2011]]
March 21st, 2012
[[Image:Tahrir Square on February11.png|300px|thumb|Celebrations in Tahrir Square, Cairo, 2011]]
Harvard University- Cambridge, MA (Boston)
[[Image:2011 Greece Uprising.jpg|300px|thumb|Demonstrators in front of the Greek parliament, 29 May.]]
Social media hashtag: #21M
[[Image:Tunisia Unrest - VOA - Tunis 14 Jan 2011 (2).jpg|300px|thumb|Protesters in downtown Tunis on 14 January 2011]]
[[Image:W15 Protesters 1807.JPG|300px|thumb|300px|Iceland concentration 20 January 2009]]
[[Image:Wallst14occupy.jpg|300px|thumb|300px|Protesters near the New York City Police Department, 2011]]
[[Image:Protesters_gathering_in_Pearl_roundabout.jpg‎ |300px|thumb|Protesters gathering in Pearl roundabout for the first time since the begging of the 2011 Bahraini uprising]]
[[Image:Yemen protest.jpg|300px|thumb|Protest in Sanaa, Yemen (February 3, 2011)]]
[[Image:Demonstration_in_Al_Bayda_(Libya,_2011-07-22).jpg|300px|thumb|Demonstration in Al Bayda Libya, 2011]]
[[Image:Syntagma Square 'indignados'.png|300px|thumb|Demonstrators in the plaza in front of the Greek parliament, 25 May]]
[[Image:Anonymous-Bruxelles.jpg|300px|thumb|Anonymous protestors at the Brussels Stock Exchange, Belgium, January 2012]]
[[Image:Acampada Sol ph18.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Sol, 18 May, early morning]]
[[Image:Occupy_London_Tent.jpg|300px|thumb|Occupy London Tent, 25 May 2011]]
[[Image:Wall-Street-1.jpg|300px|thumb|Poster OWS 17 September 2011]]


= '''Introduction''' =
'''Workshop: Understanding the New Wave of Social Cooperation: A Triangulation of the Arab Revolutions, European Mobilizations and the American Occupy Movement'''<br>
9:00am-5:15pm <br>
March 21st, 2012 <br>
Harvard University- Cambridge, MA (Boston) <br>
Social media hashtag: '''#21M''' '''#occupyresearch''' IRC: #Berkman <br>


This one-day workshop brings together several groups of researchers: members of the Council for European Studies (CES) European Social Movements research network who will be in Boston for the Council for European Studies conference (March 22 - 24); scholars at the Berkman Center researching the Arab Spring, recent mobilizations in European countries (such as the 15th of May mobilizations in the Spain), and the Occupy movement in United States; and researchers from institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School, MIT's Comparative Media Center, Northwest University and Boston College's Social Movements seminar.
= '''Introduction''' =


The workshop will be hosted in the Berkman Center at Harvard University and is organized in cooperation with the Council for European Studies (CES) European Social Movements research network and other Boston-based groups working in this space.
This one-day workshop brought together several groups of researchers: members of the Council for European Studies (CES) European Social Movements research network who were in Boston for the Council for European Studies conference (March 22 - 24); scholars at the Berkman Center; and researchers from institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School, MIT's Comparative Media Center, Northwest University and Boston College's'Movements/media Research and Action Project (MRAP).
 
The workshop was hosted in the Berkman Center at Harvard University and is organized in cooperation with the Council for European Studies (CES) European Social Movements research network and the collaboration of MIT Comparative media and Occupy Research. [[Organization credits]]


'''Goals and Key Objectives'''  
'''Goals and Key Objectives'''  


At this event, we will undertake a historically grounded comparative approach that attempts to place these protests and their corresponding forms of social cooperation in historical context and seeks to establish an analytical and theoretical grounding for the study of these events. We plan not only to investigate each individual movement, but also to assess the relationships (or lack thereof) between each of the respective cases.  
At this event, we undertook a historically grounded comparative approach that attempted to place these protests and their corresponding forms of social cooperation in context and sought to establish an analytical and theoretical grounding for the study of these events. We did not only investigate each individual case, but also assessed the relationships (or lack thereof) between each of the respective cases.  


More specifically, the workshop aims to analyze the particular details associated with each national/regional case and will endeavor to identify and discuss any commonalities between them based on a 'triangulation' of current research and understanding on the Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy movement. To facilitate an interactive discussion on these topics during the event, the specific angle of each of the three planned sessions will be defined around clusters of participants' interest.
More specifically, the workshop analyzed the particular details associated with each national/regional case and identified and discussed any commonalities between them based on a 'triangulation' of current research and understanding on the Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy movement. To facilitate an interactive discussion on these topics during the event, the specific angle of each of the three planned sessions was defined around clusters of participants' interest:


To achieve our objectives, we will take up the following questions, among others:
* '''EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES'''
What is the relationship between these forms of social cooperation? How similar and different are they from each other? What do these events tell us about collective action? How important are national or global factors in shaping each case and the relationship among them? What role have new technologies played in each case? To what extent is the application of these technologies truly new, and in what way(s) might we be witnessing a reconfiguration of familiar elements? Which theoretical and analytical frameworks are people finding useful as they think about these movements, and which frameworks are proving less productive?  
Which organizational forms were adopted by the movements in each case? What is the role of social media in shaping these emerging forms? Are there similarities among the cases? What do these cases tell us about the conditions and organizational principles of collective action?  


'''Objectives:'''
* '''WHO MOBILIZED AND WITH WHICH GOALS AND STRATEGIES?'''  
What is the movement composition (i.e, who were the actors and what social bases were involved)? In terms of the actors what is the continuity with previous mobilization waves, such as the global justice movement? What were/are the visions and strategies of change in each of the cases? Is there a common political view or strategy among all the cases? What are the significant divisions between actors within each individual case? Are there similar divisions across different cases, and to what extent are the local and national dynamics important in shaping movement configuration?


* As noted above, the key objective is to analyze the specific details associated with each national/regional case to identify commonalities and differences among them based on a "triangulation" of the current research and understanding on the Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy movement.   
* '''EXPLANATORY FACTORS AND CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CASES'''
Why did social mobilization happen in so many countries at once? Are there similar explanatory factors and historical trajectories that explain why mobilization took place? Is it legitimate to talk about a global wave of mobilization? If so, how are these different cases connected and how might we confirm and document the connections between movements? What are the mechanisms of diffusion and translation among the cases?


To achieve this overarching goal, we aim to:  
'''Objectives:'''
* Contextualize (both historically and from a socio-political perspective) the impact of digital tools in collective action by connecting the social movements studies tradition with the analysis of Internet-based phenomena, which will require drawing connections among European, North American, and Arabic approaches to research and analysis.


To achieve the overarching goal of "triangulating" of the current research and understanding on the Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy movement, our specific goals were:
* Contextualize (both historically and from a socio-political perspective) the impact of digital tools in collective action by connecting the social movements studies tradition with the analysis of Internet-based phenomena, which required drawing connections among European, North American, and Arabic approaches to research and analysis.
* Map and systematically organize existing research and expertise on the current wave of social cooperation and mobilization.
* Map and systematically organize existing research and expertise on the current wave of social cooperation and mobilization.
* Exchange, share, and discuss current work and facilitate synergy among researchers on the topic.
* Exchange, share, and discuss current work and facilitate synergy among researchers on the topic.


'''Format and methodology'''
'''Format and methodology'''


The workshop is intended as an exchange between researchers at the event rather than as an opportunity to disseminate information to other researchers or to the general public. To facilitate interaction among researchers, this workshop will avoid conference-style presentations and instead is designed to foster dialogue among individuals working in this space. The format will be mainly discussion-based around a series of questions, with the opportunity to circulate papers (including those already presented elsewhere or under preparation) in advance of the event itself. A maximum of 30 participants are expected at this highly-interactive event.  
The workshop was intended as an exchange between researchers at the event rather than as an opportunity to disseminate information to other researchers or to the general public. To facilitate interaction among researchers, this workshop avoided conference-style presentations and instead was designed to foster dialogue among individuals working in this space. The format was mainly discussion-based around a series of questions, with the opportunity to share papers in advance of the event itself at this wiki. A maximum of 30 participants were expected at this highly-interactive event.  


For each session, a moderator will introduce the theme followed by very short (5 minute) warm up presentations. All participants will be invited to discuss any and all issues pertaining to the theme. For each session, we will assign a note taker and draft a schema/map of the issues emerging.
For each session, a moderator introduced the theme followed by very short (5 minute) warm up presentations. Then all participants were invited to discuss any and all issues pertaining to the theme. Each session finalized by someone providing a synthesis of the discussion. For each session, we assigned a note taker and like tweeting.


Please note that all workshop discussion will be audio recorded and will be made publicly available afterwards on the web.
All workshop discussion were audio recorded for note taking purposes. Live streaming connexion were provided upon request.


== Logistical Information ==
[[Schedule]]


* Location: The workshop is taking place in two places
[[List of participants]]


''A Morning Session from '9:00am-1:00pm''' - Room 105 in Hauser Hall, Harvard Law School 
'''Contact''' Mayo Fuster Morell at mayofm(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu or Amar Ashar at ashar(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu


'''Following the lunch break, from 1:00pm-5:00pm''' - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at 23 Everett Street, second floor 
= Workshop documentation =


''With an optional dinner for participants at 6:00pm''
'''Notes sessions:'''


Link to [http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Harvard+T+station,+Cambridge,+MA&daddr=Hauser+Hall,+Mid-Cambridge,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+02138+to:42.3798459,-71.1171365+to:23+Everett+Street,+Cambridge,+MA&hl=en&ll=42.37825,-71.115382&spn=0.009146,0.021136&sll=42.378702,-71.116036&sspn=0.004573,0.010568&geocode=FfKQhgIdlM_C-ykbvZ_CQnfjiTHVYjaWkHpcWg%3BFWelhgIdDNPC-ynXZfcHQXfjiTGG72PxkDirvw%3BFUWqhgIdsNbC-ymZl5jxQHfjiTFgC2KkRvIOYw%3BFeiqhgIdfdPC-ymb4nv2QHfjiTFznQuwPk8xXw&oq=23+Eve&dirflg=w&mra=dpe&mrsp=2&sz=17&via=2&t=m&z=16 map of directions] from Harvard T station (underground station)
* 9:30 am – 10:30 am EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES and 10:45 am-11:45 am CONTINUATION EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19VvvBKVGgsVTz1A2PsdobxDzo8mafs8L92e-VFOhOFw/edit Notes session]


Getting there:
* 1:00 pm-2:30 pm WHO MOBILIZED AND WITH WHICH GOALS AND STRATEGIES? [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19VvvBKVGgsVTz1A2PsdobxDzo8mafs8L92e-VFOhOFw/edit Notes session]
* Driving Directions: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/directions.php#Driving
* Subway Directions: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/directions.php#Subway
* Bus Directions: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/contact/directions.php#Bus
* Parking is not available through Harvard Law School, but there are several parking garages in Harvard Square


* Wireless Internet access will be available at the workshop
* 2:45 pm-4:15 pm EXPLANATORY FACTORS AND CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CASES [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Vv1G0EgTf0XF-r00c1aeTA3bLmLxRJnMAF21nQmZxE/edit Notes session]
* Social Media Participation: Twitter / Identica hashtag: #21M
* Other questions? Contact Amar Ashar at ashar(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu


= Schedule =
* 4:15 - 5:00 pm Final reflections and next steps: Theoretical Take-Aways and Ways to Rethink Research [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-vGIN5aJw2mXh1JKoSH7MY5dC_AUj3tQ0hAr9J751Rg/edit Notes takes final session]


'''A FINAL VERSION OF THE WORKSHOP AGENDA WILL BE PROVIDED'''  
'''Slides:'''


* Slides presentation Mayo Fuster Morell: [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/21M12socialcooperation/sites/21M12socialcooperation/images/WorkshopMarch212012_MayoFM_Slides.pdf Emerging organizational forms and digital technologies: Spanish State case: “Indignated”/15M mobilization]


'''20 March'''
'''Audio recording''' of the workshop could be provided upon request.
8pm: (Optional) Informal dinner among the participants in town (particularly those coming from abroad) http://acetarium.com/ (265 Elm Street, Somerville T Station: Davis Square) – Please sign in if you plan to attend


== Map of case/participant ==


'''21 March'''
'''USA Occupy movement''' (general): Beth Coleman, Maite Tapia, E. Colin Ruggero, Marcos Ancelovici, William A. (Bill) Gamson, Ofer Sharone, Pablo Rey, Dalida María Benfield, Nicole Doerr, Tim McCarthy, Martha Fuentes-Bautista
* '''Boston''': Sasha Costanza-Chock, Pablo Rey, Nicole Doerr, Jeffrey Juris, Jason Pramas, Sandra Ray, Robert J. Wengronowitz, Gabriel Schaffzin
* '''Pittburg''': Alice Mattoni
* '''Philadelphia''': E. Colin Ruggero


'''9:00 am''' Welcome and introduction - Coffee and baked goods will be provided
'''Canada: Montreal''': Marcos Ancelovici
''Room 105 in Hauser Hall''


Rob Faris (Berkman center), Cristina Flesher Fominaya (CES) and Mayo Fuster (Berkman center)
'''Arab Spring''' (general): Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Alicia Solow-Niederman, William A. (Bill) Gamson
* '''Tunisia''': Zack Brisson
* '''Egypt''': Lina Attalah, Zeynep Tufekci, Nagla Rizk, Alicia Solow-Niederman, Zack Brisson, Dalida María Benfield


Lighting Round Introductions (30 seconds each) (15 minutes)
'''South African Movements''': Nicole Doerr


'''9:30am – 10:30am''' EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
'''Israeli Summer''': William A. (Bill) Gamson
''Room 105 in Hauser Hall''
Which organizational forms were adopted by the movements in each case? What is the role of social media in shaping these emerging forms? Are there similarities among the cases? What do these cases tell us about the conditions and organizational principles of collective action? (Briefly comment on your methodological approach as it relates to these questions and any particular barriers, challenges or opportunities you have encountered in your work.)


Presents the session and moderates (timekeeper)
'''European dimension''': Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Francesca Vassallo, Nicole Doerr, Alexander Trechsel
Warm up presentation (5 to 7 minutes): Egypt, Spain and OWS cases.
* '''Spain''': Mayo Fuster Morell, Pablo Rey, Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Marcos Ancelovici
Participants working on the area. From a more “digital” perspective: Mayo Fuster Morell, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Nagla Rizk, Alice Mattoni, Colin Maclay, Pablo Rey, Lina Attalah, Jeffrey Juris, Jason Pramas, Beth Coleman, Alicia Solow-Niederman.
* '''Germany''': Nicole Doerr, Maite Tapia
More on each participant approach to the topic: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/21M12socialcooperation/Insights_on_topics#First_discussion
* '''Greece''':  Maria Kousis, Sandra Ray
In all the sessions, there will be collaborative notes taken, Live blogging and live tweeting.
* '''Italy''': Alice Mattoni  
10:30am-10:45 am Break
* '''UK''': Maite Tapia
*''' Ireland''': Laurence Cox France : Marcos Ancelovici, Francesca Vassallo
*''' Poland''': Elzbieta Cizewska
* '''France''': Marcos Ancelovici
*''' Russia''': Rob Faris, Bruce Etling
 
'''Latino-america:'''
* Venezuela: Martha Fuentes-Bautista
 
[[Distribution of participants per topics]]


'''10:45 am- 11:45 pm''': METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL MEDIA
= Bibliographic resources =


Warm up presentation: Social Network analysis, text analysis, blogs, Twitter and MSM; and Occupy research experience.
Please add any relevant resource.


Ending Session Synthesis (5 - 7 minutes).
== Arab Spring ==


'''11:45 pm-1:00 pm''' Lunch and move to new location, Berkman Center Conf. Room
"Faculty Insights", AUC Today, Spring 2011 http://www1.aucegypt.edu/publications/auctoday/AUCTodaySpring11/01_Faculty_Insights.htm
We will walk as a group to the Berkman Center, 23 Everett St., 2nd floor
Group picture at the Berkman Center entrance.


'''1:00 pm-2:30pm''': WHO MOBILIZED AND WITH WHICH GOALS AND STRATEGIES?
Al-Malky, Rania    2007    Blogging for Reform: the Case of Egyp Arab Media and Society (February 2007)  http://www.arabmediasociety.com/articles/downloads/20070312143716_AMS1_Rania_Al_Malky.pdf
''Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor''
What is the movement composition (i.e, who were the actors and what social bases were involved)? In terms of the actors what is the continuity with previous mobilization waves, such as the global justice movement? What were/are the visions and strategies of change in each of the cases? Is there a common political view or strategy among all the cases? What are the significant divisions between actors within each individual case? Are there similar divisions across different cases, and to what extent are the local and national dynamics important in shaping movement configuration? (Briefly comment on your methodological approach as it relates to these questions and any particular barriers, challenges or opportunities you have encountered in your work.)


Warm up presentation (5 to 7 minutes): Egypt, Europe (Greece) and OWS cases.  
Alimi, Eitan Y. and David S. Meyer (2012) Seasons of Change: Arab Spring and Political Opportunities. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


Participants particularly working on the area. Charlotte Ryan, Ofer Sharone, E. Coling Roggero, Maite Tapia, and  Marcos Ancelovici.  
Anderson, Jon  2003    New Media, New Publics: Reconfiguring the Public Sphere of Islam Social Research 70 (3):888-906  http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/policy_library/data/01338


More on each participant approach to the topic: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/21M12socialcooperation/Insights_on_topics#Second_discussion
Anderson, Lisa    2011  Demystifying the Arab Spring: Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya Foreign Affairs http://www.ssrresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Anderson-Demystifying-the-Arab-Spring.pdf


Ending Session Synthesis (5 - 7 minutes).
Aouragh, Miriyam and Anne Alexander. 2011. “The Egyptian experience.” International Journal of Communication (5): 1344-1358.  


'''2:30pm-3:00pm''' Coffee break
Axelford, Barrie    2011  Talk about a Revolution: Social Media and the MENA Uprisings  Globalizations (published by Global Studies Association of North America), Volume 8, Issue 5, 2011 (available via Taylor & Francis Online)    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2011.621281#preview


'''3:00pm-4:15pm''' EXPLANATORY FACTORS AND CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CASES
Babak Rahimi  2011 The Agonistic Social Media: Cyberspace in the Formation of Dissent and Consolidation of State Power in Postelection Iran      The Communication Review      http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10714421.2011.597240 
''Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor''
Why did social mobilization happen in so many countries at once? Are there similar explanatory factors and historical trajectories that explain why mobilization took place? Is it legitimate to talk about a global wave of mobilization? If so, how are these different cases connected and how might we confirm and document the connections between movements? What are the mechanisms of diffusion and translation among the cases?(Briefly comment on your methodological approach as it relates to these questions and any particular barriers, challenges or opportunities you have encountered in your work.)


Warm up presentation (5 to 7 minutes): Comparison Egypt and Tunisia; Comparison Israel, Arab countries & Occupy; and reflection on waves of mobilization.
Brisson, Zack, & Krontiris, Kate (March, 2012). 'Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions' <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53226669/Tunisia%201-2012-Publication-Web-%C6%92.pdf> World Bank Group
Participants particularly working on the area. Jeffrey Juris, Jason Pramas, Maria Kousis, Nicole Doerr, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, and Laurence Cox.


More on each participant approach to the topic: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/21M12socialcooperation/Insights_on_topics#Third_discussion
Brisson, Zack, & Lee, Panthea (March, 2011). 'Egypt: From Revolutions to Institutions'<http://thereboot.org/wp-content/Egypt/Reboot-Egypt-From-Revolutions-To-Institutions.pdf>


Ending Session Synthesis (5 - 7 minutes).
Chebib, Nadine Kassem  and Rabia Minatullah Sohail      2011  The Reasons Social Media Contributed To The 2011 Egyptian Revolution  International Journal of Business Research and Management (IJBRM), Volume (2) : Issue (3) : 2011      http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJBRM/volume2/Issue3/IJBRM-52.pdf


'''4:15pm - 5:00pm''' Final reflections and next steps: “Theoretical Takes and Methods to Rethink Research”
Compilation of authors; Edited by Marc Lynch, Susan B. Glasser, and Blake Hounshell    2011  [e-book] Revolution in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt and the Unmaking of an Era      Foreign Policy  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ebooks/revolution_in_the_arab_world
''Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor''


Brainstorming of takes from the workshop (Each says one or two takes) - Topics: Methods, Theory, and Comparability of the cases.  
Cottle, Simon  2011  Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research notes  Journalism, July 2011; 12 (5)   http://www.contexting.me/files/CottleMediaandtheArabUprising.pdf


Closing Remarks
Diani, Mario (2012)  Networks and Internet into Perspective. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


'''6:00pm''' 21M Dinner (Optional) [[List of people attending the dinner]] Please add your name to the list on the wiki if you plan to attend.
Dupont, Cédric, Florence Passy  2011  Debate: The Arab Spring or How to Explain those Revolutionary Episodes? Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 17, Issue 4, pages 447–451, December 2011      http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02037.x/abstract


Eickelman, Dale    2005  New Media in the Arab Middle East and the Emergence of Open Societies in Remaking Muslim Politics ed. Robert Hefner    2005, Princeton University Press      http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MmmVMCBej8oC&oi=fnd&pg=PA37&dq=%22new+media+in+the+arab+middle+east%22&ots=VVVYG9YiIe&sig=Z8J5mbCrhB5slmusWY4GlY20q20#v=onepage&q=%22new%20media%20in%20the%20arab%20middle%20east%22&f=false


'''Post – workshop: Optional activities'''
Ellis, Christopher J., John Fender    2010  Information Cascades and Revolutionary Regime Transitions    The Economic Journal  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02401.x/abstract   


'''22 March and 23 March''' (Optional)
Eltantawy, Nahed, Julie B. Wiest 2011  Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Reconsidering Resource Mobilization Theory    International Journal of Communication  http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1242


[[Seminars and workshop Council of European Studies Conference]]
eMarketing Egypt      2011  Facebook in Egypt:e-marketing insights August 2011    Gartner Research      N/A
Farrell, Henry  N/A    The Internet's Consequences for Politics      Not yet published; posted online at Crooked Timber Blog crookedtimber.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ARPS.pdf


'''23 March and 24 March''' (Optional)
Gamson, William A. (2012) Arab Spring, Israeli Summer, and the Process of Cognitive Liberation. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


OccupyData Hackathon 2: Data Visualization for the 99%!
Ghannam, Jeffrey  2011  Social Media in the Arab World: Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011    Center for International Media Assistance    http://cima.ned.org/publications/social-media-arab-world-leading-uprisings-2011-0


What: OccupyData Hackathon 1 brought you visualizations of 13 million occupy tweets (see summaries by OccupyResearch, R-Shief, Fast Company, and Utrecht University). People participated from Utrech, LA, Boston, NY, and Spain.OccupyData Hackathon 2 builds on the demos and tools from the first round, and turns our collaborative energy on visualizing the 5000+ responses to the OccupyResearch General Demographics and Participation Survey (ORGS), R-Shief Twitter #occupy tags aggregated since September 2011, and Occupy Oakland Serves the People survey, as well as other datasets people might want to explore. This event is not only for hackers or coders, but for anyone who’s interested. Bring your ideas, skills, creativity, questions and critical perspectives as we explore occupy datasets using free and open source tools and software. We’ll make connections from one place to another – open to all participants! The model is for people to arrange local venues for f2f meetups, work locally, and share/collaborate real time via skype/chat/twitter/google docs and etherpads, etc. If you can’t make it to one of the physical locations, you can still join in remotely.
Goldstone, Jack A. (2012) Cross-class Coalitions and the Making of the Arab Revolts of 2011. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


How: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuGzPY2QcXhkdDhyX1BucnVKcUhTd3NOVktoT2lxQ2c#gid=0 Sign up] here
Goodwin, Jeff. (2012) Why We Were Surprised (Again) by the Arab Spring. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


Where in Cambridge: MIT Media Lab E15-432, 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA 02139 USA (http://www.media.mit.edu/about/building)
Howard, P.    2010  [Book] The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam  Oxford University Press, 2010  http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publishing/internetislam/internetislam.html
Contacts for clarification on location and others: Sasha Costanza-Chock (schock(at)MIT.EDU) & Pablo Rey (Pablo(at)basurama.org) or irc.lc.freenode/occupydata


= Participants =
Howard, Philip N. Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Muzammil Hussain, Will Mari, and Marwa Mazaid    2011  Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?    Project on Information Technology & Political Islam (pITPI)    http://pitpi.org/index.php/2011/09/11/opening-closed-regimes-what-was-the-role-of-social-media-during-the-arab-spring/


''Participants target'': A gender balanced and topic/place diverse gathering of currently researchers (not only interested) in the Arab Spring, European wave or Occupy movements that combine action and research perspectives. Room maximum: 30 people (already full).  
International Journal of Communication (Vol. 5), http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc


''Workshop "ecosystem"'': The workshop puts together very diverse profile and trajectories. Combination of European, Arabic and United States profiles; English- native and non-English native; social movements scholars and - not social movements (meaning not familiar with social movement studies); digital and non-digitals. This great diversity requires to take distance from each position and be still even more open minding and not - giving things for granted details on the cases or on each (language and) perspective.
Iqbal, Zubair    2011  Are Democratic Revolts Contagious? Implications for the Arab World    Middle East Institute  http://www.mei.edu/content/are-democratic-revolts-contagious-implications-arab-world


[[List of participants]]
Kabir, Nahid Afrose      2011  Egypt's Arab Spring: will the flowers blossom?  University of South Australia International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding    http://www.unisa.edu.au/muslim-understanding/documents/kabir-egypts-arab-spring.pdf


== Map of case/participant ==
Khamis, Dr. Sahar  and Katherine Vaughn  2011  Cyberactivism in the Egyptian Revolution: How Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism Tilted the Balance      Published in Issue 13 of Arab Media and Society (Formerly TBS Journal), Summer 2011    http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=769


'''USA Occupy movement''' (general): Mike Ananny, Beth Coleman, Maite Tapia, E. Colin Ruggero, Marcos Ancelovici, William A. (Bill) Gamson, Ofer Sharone, Pablo Rey
Khondker, Habibul Haque    2011  Role of the New Media in the Arab Spring      Globalizations (published by Global Studies Association of North America), Volume 8, Issue 5, 2011 (available via Taylor & Francis Online)     http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2011.621287
* '''Boston''' : Sasha Costanza-Chock, Pablo Rey, Nicole Doerr, Jeffrey Juris, Jason Pramas, Sandra Ray
* '''Pittburg''' : Alice Mattoni
* '''Philadelphia''': E. Colin Ruggero
* '''Rhode Island and Providence (RI)''': Charlotte Ryan


'''Canada: Montreal''': Marcos Ancelovici
Laipson, Ellen (project director); Courtney C. Radsch (author)  2011  Blogosphere and Social Media (pp. 67-81)      Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East  http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/research-pdfs/Blogosphere_and_Social_Media.pdf


'''Arab Spring''' (general) Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Alicia Solow-Niederman (how to understand the Occupy movement in the
Lotan, Gilad et al. 2011. “The revolutions were tweeted.” International Journal of Communications 5: 1375-1405.
global context), William A. (Bill) Gamson
* '''Tunisia''' : Ethan Zuckerman, Zack Brisson
* '''Egypt''' : Lina Attalah, Zeynep Tufekci, Nagla Rizk, Alicia Solow-Niederman, Zack Brisson


'''Israeli Summer''': William A. (Bill) Gamson
Lotan, Gilad,  Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, danah boyd 2011  The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions    International Journal of Communication  http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1246


'''European dimension:''' Christian Scholl, Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Francesca Vassallo and Nicole Doerr
Lynch, Marc      2011  After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State        Perspectives on Politics (2011), 9 : pp 301-310    http://www.marclynch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/download-Lynch-article.pdf
* '''Spain''' : Mayo Fuster Morell, Pablo Rey, Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Marcos Ancelovici
* '''Germany''' : Nicole Doerr, Maite Tapia
* '''Greece''':  Maria Kousis, Sandra Ray
* '''Italy''' : Alice Mattoni
* '''UK''': Maite Tapia
*''' Ireland''' : Laurence Cox France : Marcos Ancelovici, Francesca Vassallo
*''' Amsterdam''' : Christian Scholl
*''' Poland''' : Elzbieta Cizewska
* '''France''': Marcos Ancelovici
*''' Russia''': Rob Faris, Bruce Etling


[[Distribution of participants per topics]]
Lynch, Marc    2007  Blogging the New Arab Public  Arab Media and Society (February 2007)  http://www.arabmediasociety.com/articles/downloads/20070312155027_AMS1_Marc_Lynch.pdf


= Bibliographic resources =
Lysenkoa, Volodymyr V. Kevin C. Desouzab      2012  Moldova's internet revolution: Analyzing the role of technologies in various phases of the confrontation      Technological Forecasting and Social Change, via Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162511001223   


Please add any relevant resource.
Malcolm Gladwell’s blog post on The New Yorker website, “Does Egypt Need Twitter?” www.newyorker.com (accessed November 11, 2011).  


== Arab Spring ==
Murphy, Emma C.    2009  Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World: Informational Capitalism and the Public Sphere    International Studies Quarterly 53, p. 1131-1153      http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2009.00571.x/pdf


Brisson, Zack, & Krontiris, Kate (March, 2012). 'Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions' <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53226669/Tunisia%201-2012-Publication-Web-%C6%92.pdf> World Bank Group
Musleh, Abeer 2012 Mobilizing during the Arab Revolutions: Palestinian Youth Speak for Themseleves. In Tejerina, B. and I. Perugorría (Eds.) From Social to Political. New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization, Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco. Email: abmusleh@gmail.com


Brisson, Zack, & Lee, Panthea (March, 2011). 'Egypt: From Revolutions to Institutions'<http://thereboot.org/wp-content/Egypt/Reboot-Egypt-From-Revolutions-To-Institutions.pdf>
Nanabhay, Mohamed  and Roxane Farmanfarmaian    2011   From spectacle to spectacular: How physical space, social media and mainstream broadcast amplified the public sphere in Egypt's ‘Revolution’  The Journal of North African Studies  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2011.639562


Nepstad, Sharon Erickson (2012) Nonviolent Resistance in the Arab Spring: The Critical Role of Military-Opposition Alliances. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue:http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Nepstad, Sharon Erickson (2012) Nonviolent Resistance in the Arab Spring: The Critical Role of Military-Opposition Alliances. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue:http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


Goodwin, Jeff. (2012) Why We Were Surprised (Again) by the Arab Spring. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Networks and Internet into Perspective" Swiss Political Science Review 17(4): 469–47  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02040.x/pdf


Schneider, Cathy Lisa (2012) Violence and State Repression.Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Schneider, Cathy Lisa (2012) Violence and State Repression.Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h


Alimi, Eitan Y.  and David S. Meyer (2012) Seasons of Change: Arab Spring and Political Opportunities. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Skinner, Julia    2011  Social Media and Revolution: The Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement as Seen through Three Information Studies Paradigms      Sprouts Working Papers on Information Systems  http://sprouts.aisnet.org/11-169/
 
Stephan, Maria J.        2011  Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Outcomes and Prospects, Volume 3  Middle East Institute  http://www.mei.edu/content/introduction-revolution-and-political-transformation-middle-east-outcomes-and-prospects-vol
 
Tufekci, Zaynep.  2011. “Too many messages and only one Facebook page.” Technosociology. Blog posted on September 19, 2011. http://technosociology.org, accessed November 11, 2011.
 
Tufekci, Zaynep. 2011. “New media and the people-powered uprisings.” Technology Review. Blog posted on August 30, 2011. www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/, accessed November 11, 2011.
 
Tufekci, Zeynep  2011  New Media and the People-Powered Uprisings    MIT Technology Review  http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/
 
Tufekci, Zeynep  N/A; publication forthcoming  The New Media Ecology and the Dynamics of Collective Action and Repression Under Autocracies  Draft provided to Berkman Center team; publication forthcoming in Journal of Communication    N/A; draft provided to Berkman Center team; please see Berkman webcast 'From Tehran to Tahrir: Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes,' available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci 
 
Tufekci, Zeynep (2011) Video presentation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/zeynep & http://technosociology.org/ Keywords/themes: Collective action and technology Focus cases: Arab Spring (Egypt) Related work: Video presentation: From Tehran to Tahrir: Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci
 
Wilson, Christopher and Alexandra Dunn. 2011a. “Digital media in the Egyptian revolution.” International Journal of Communication 5: 1248-1272.
 
Wilson, Christopher, Alexandra Dunn    2011  Digital Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Descriptive Analysis from the Tahrir Data Set International Journal of Communication  http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1180
 
Zunes, Stephen    2011  Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Agents of Change, Volume 1  Middle East Institute  http://www.mei.edu/content/revolution-and-political-transformation-middle-east-agents-change
 
Zunes, Stephen  2011  Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Government Action and Response, Volume 2  Middle East Institute  http://www.mei.edu/content/introduction-revolution-and-political-transformation-middle-east-government-action-and
 
'''BLOG POSTS  ARAB CASES:  ''' 
 
Carvin, Andy      2011  Online Reports Detail Chaos, Deaths in Tunisia; Add Yours    NPR.org Jan 13  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/13/132888992/tunisia-protests-social-media
 
Eltahawy, Mona    2010  Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter are The New Tools of Protest in the Arab World  Washington Post, August 7 2010  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080605094.html   
 
Gallagher, Ian    2011    Egyptian police use Facebook and Twitter to track down protesters' names before 'rounding them up'    Daily Mail London 2011  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354096/Egypt-protests-Police-use-Facebook-Twitter-track-protesters.html
 
Greenberg, Andy    2011  As Egyptians Reconnect, Their Government Will Be Watching    Forbes.com 2011  http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/04/as-egyptians-reconnect-their-government-will-be-watching/ 
 
Hirschkind, Charles      2011  The Road to Tahrir    Social Science Research Council  http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/02/09/the-road-to-tahrir/


Diani, Mario (2012) Networks and Internet into Perspective. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Levinson, Charles and Margaret Croker    2011  The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising    Wall Street Journal Feb 2011    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576135882356532702.html 


Gamson, William A. (2012)  Arab Spring, Israeli Summer, and the Process of Cognitive Liberation. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Masoud, Tarek    2011  An Exit Plan for Mubarak      New York Times  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/opinion/04masoud.html 


Goldstone, Jack A. (2012)  Cross-class Coalitions and the Making of the Arab Revolts of 2011. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h
Masoud, Tarek    2011   U.S. must back democracy in Egypt regardless  Los Angeles Times      http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/09/opinion/la-oe-masoud-egypt-20110209   


Aouragh, Miriyam and Anne Alexander. 2011. “The Egyptian experience.” International Journal of Communication (5): 1344-1358.
May, Michelle  2011   How the Egyptian Revolution Inspired Protests in Spain  PBS Media Shift: Social Networking    http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/how-the-egyptian-revolution-inspired-protests-in-spain161.html
International Journal of Communication (Vol. 5), http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc


Lotan, Gilad et al. 2011. “The revolutions were tweeted.” International Journal of Communications 5: 1375-1405.
Mccormick, Ty    2011  The Road to Tahrir (Foreign Policy)    Foreign Policy August 18 2011   http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/18/the_road_to_tahrir   
Malcolm Gladwell’s blog post on The New Yorker website, “Does Egypt Need Twitter?” www.newyorker.com (accessed November 11, 2011).


Tufekci, Zaynep.  2011. “Too many messages and only one Facebook page.” Technosociology. Blog posted on September 19, 2011. http://technosociology.org, accessed November 11, 2011.  
Mostak, Todd    2011   Tarek Masoud discusses the dynamics of Egypt's Revolution    Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies  http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/2427 


Tufekci, Zaynep. 2011. “New media and the people-powered uprisings.” Technology Review. Blog posted on August 30, 2011. www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/, accessed November 11, 2011.
N/A; Gulf Stream Blog  2011   Tunisia's Wikileaks Revolution? Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Gulfstream: Analysis from the Dubai Initative    http://middleeastinthenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/tunisias-wikileaks-revolution/


Tufekci, Zeynep (2011) Video presentation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/zeynep & http://technosociology.org/ Keywords/themes: Collective action and technology Focus cases: Arab Spring (Egypt) Related work: Video presentation: From Tehran to Tahrir: Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci
N/A; Gulf Stream Blog  2011   When the People Rise Up: Egypt's Massive Protests and Their Unpredictable Outcomes    Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Gulfstream: Analysis from the Dubai Initative    http://middleeastinthenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/when-the-people-rise-up-egyptian-massive-protests-and-the-unpredictable-outcomes/


Wilson, Christopher and Alexandra Dunn. 2011a. “Digital media in the Egyptian revolution.” International Journal of Communication 5: 1248-1272.
N/A; Gulf Stream Blog  2011  When the People Rise Up: When the People Rise Up: Lessons from Tunisia  Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Gulfstream: Analysis from the Dubai Initative    http://middleeastinthenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/when-the-people-rise-up-lessons-from-tunisia/


== Spanish Indignated/15M ==
== Spanish "Indignatos"/15M ==


Fuster Morell, M (2011) Video presentation: The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/11/morell
Fuster Morell, M (2011) Video presentation: The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/11/morell
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Taibo, Carlos. 2011. El 15-M en sesenta preguntas. Madrid: Los libros de la Catarata.
Taibo, Carlos. 2011. El 15-M en sesenta preguntas. Madrid: Los libros de la Catarata.
Toret, Javier (2011) Una mirada tecnopolítica sobre los primeros días del #15M .http://civilsc.net/node/14
Jornadas Seminario de “Comunicación y Sociedad Civil” de la UOC-IN3: http://civilsc.net/
Purmar, Victor (2012) Los indignados cumplen un año. El éxito tangible del 15M http://www.unitedexplanations.org/2012/03/21/los-indignados-cumplen-un-ano-el-exito-tangible-del-15m/


== Occupy Wall Street ==  
== Occupy Wall Street ==  
American Ethnologist's (AE) May 2012 issue (Volume 39, Issue 2) features three open-access articles on the Occupy movements (by Jeffrey Juris, Maple Razsa/Andrej Kurnik, and David Nugent). ***Photos, abstracts, and direct links to the articles are available on AE's website: http://www.americanethnologist.org Click on the Occupy article titles and you will be taken to the abstracts (and accompanying photos), and at the end of the abstracts you will find live open access links to the full article PDFs in the Wiley-Online Library. 1) Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik, "The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming". 2) Jeffrey S. Juris, "Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation". 3) David Nugent, "Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements"


Adbusters call to occupy wall street: www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html (accessed October 24, 2011).  
Adbusters call to occupy wall street: www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html (accessed October 24, 2011).  
Costanza-Chock, Sasha (2012) Video presentation Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: http://vimeo.com/groups/occupyvideo/videos/37833652


Collins, Joan. 2012. "Theorizing Wisconsin's 2011 Protests." American Ethnologist 39(1): 1-15.  
Collins, Joan. 2012. "Theorizing Wisconsin's 2011 Protests." American Ethnologist 39(1): 1-15.  
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Milan, Stefania. 2011. “Cloud protesting.” Blog posted on October 18, 2011. http://stefi.engagetv.com/node/103, accessed November 11, 2011.  
Milan, Stefania. 2011. “Cloud protesting.” Blog posted on October 18, 2011. http://stefi.engagetv.com/node/103, accessed November 11, 2011.  
Gamson, Bill. (2012) [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/21M12socialcooperation/sites/21M12socialcooperation/images/Gamson_010212CulturalOutcomesOccupyMovement.doc Cultural Outcomes of the Occupy Movement]. December 30, 2011  [with changes added: January 2, 2012]


Rinke, Einke M. and Maria Röder. 2011. “Media ecologies, communication culture, and temporal-spatial unfolding.” International Journal of Communication 5: 1273-1285.  
Rinke, Einke M. and Maria Röder. 2011. “Media ecologies, communication culture, and temporal-spatial unfolding.” International Journal of Communication 5: 1273-1285.  
Costanza-Chock, Sasha    2010  [Dissertation] Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement  USC Annenberg School of Communication 2010 Completed Dissertions      http://annenberg.usc.edu/Research/Student/Dissertations/Completed10/Costanza-ChockS.aspx


Schradie, Jen. 2011. "Why Tents (Still) Matter for the Occupy Movement," www.commondreams.org (January 4, 2012).  
Schradie, Jen. 2011. "Why Tents (Still) Matter for the Occupy Movement," www.commondreams.org (January 4, 2012).  
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Foreign Affairs articles on OWS: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/node/133733.
Foreign Affairs articles on OWS: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/node/133733.
== Russia ==
By John Kelly, Vladimir Barash, Karina Alexanyan, Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, Urs Gasser, and John Palfrey “Mapping Russian Twitter” <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2012/mapping_russian_twitter>


== Comparison of several cases ==
== Comparison of several cases ==
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Fuster Morell, M (2012) Blog post Report on OWS Forum on the commons: http://www.onlinecreation.info/?p=492
Fuster Morell, M (2012) Blog post Report on OWS Forum on the commons: http://www.onlinecreation.info/?p=492
== Theory ==
Aday, Sean, Harry Farrell, Marc Lynch, and John Sides  2010  Special Report: Advancing New Media Research  United States Institute of Peace      http://www.usip.org/publications/advancing-new-media-research 
Aday, Sean, Harry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly, & Ethan Zuckerman 2010  Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics    United States Institute of Peace      http://www.usip.org/publications/blogs-and-bullets-new-media-in-contentious-politics   
Bajpai, Kartikeya and Anuj Jaiswal    2011  A Framework for Analyzing Collective Action Events on Twitter  Proceedings of the 8th International ISCRAM Conference--Lisbon, Portugal, May 2011    www.iscramlive.org/ISCRAM2011/proceedings/papers/119.pdf
Benkler, Yochai    2006 (hardcover publication)  The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (see especially Chapter 7, "Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere"  Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike  License  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page#Reviews_and_Blogs
Castells, Manuel 2009  Communication Power    Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press      Book reviews are available at:  http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/32/6/1043.full.pdf+html?rss=1 (published in the journal Media Culture Society) or http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10584609.2010.517097 (published in the journal Political Communication)
Couldry,  Nick, James  Curran  (eds.);  W.  Lance Bennett (author)  2003  Chapter 2: New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism  Contesting media power: alternative media in a networked world (book)  http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/assets/documents/pdf/newmediapower.pdf 
della Porta, Donatella Sidney Tarrow (eds). (2005) Transnational Protest and Global Activism, New York, Rowman and Littlefield.
della Porta, Donatella (ed.), 2009. Democracy in Social Movements, Houndsmill, Palgrave.
Diamond, Larry  2010  Liberation Technology  Journal of Democracy 21(3):69-83      http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v021/21.3.diamond.html
Earle, Lucy    2011  Literature Review on the Dynamics of Social Movements in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States  Emerging Issues Research Service of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC)    www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/EIRS13.pdf
Edmond, Chris  2011  Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change    The National Bureau of Economic Research      http://www.nber.org/papers/w17395.pdf 
Goldstone, Jack    2011  Understanding the Revolutions of 2011  Foreign Affairs  http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67694/jack-a-goldstone/understanding-the-revolutions-of-2011
Goldstone, Jack Ted Robert Gurr and Farrokh Moshiri, eds.    1991  [Book] Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century      Boulder: Westview Press, 1991  No eBook available
González-Bailón, "Sandra , Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Alejandro Rivero    & Yamir Moreno" 2011  The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network  Scientific Reports 1, Article number: 197, December 2011      http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111215/srep00197/full/srep00197.html
Huntington, Samuel P.    1991    [Book] The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991  No eBook available
McAdam, D., Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly    2001  Dynamics of Contention  New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001    http://site.ebrary.com.library.aucegypt.edu:2048/lib/aucairo/docDetail.action?docID=10005733
Meier, Patrick    2011  Chapter 2: From Evidence to Model in Do "Liberation Technologies" Change the Balance of Power Between Repressive Regimes and Civil Society? DRAFT    DRAFT of Stanford University thesis    http://irevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/meier-dissertation-final.pdf
Mourtada, R. and Fadi Salem (2011) Produced by DSG’s Governance and Innovation Program and co-authored by Racha Mourtada and Fadi Salem  2011  Facebook Usage: Factors and Analysis  Dubai School of Government, Arab Social Media Report, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Jan. 2011      http://www.dsg.ae/NEWSANDEVENTS/UpcomingEvents/ASMRHome.aspx   
Mourtada, R. and Fadi Salem Produced by DSG’s Governance and Innovation Program and co-authored by Racha Mourtada and Fadi Salem  2011  Civil Movements: The Impact of Facebook and Twitter    Dubai School of Government, Arab Social Media Report, Vol. 1, Issue 2, May 2011 http://www.dsg.ae/NEWSANDEVENTS/UpcomingEvents/ASMROverview2.aspx     
Neumayer, Christina  and Celina Raffl    2008  Facebook for Global Protest: The Potential and Limits of Social Software for Grassroots Activism      Prato CIRN 2008 Community Infomatics Conference: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality? Refereed Paper http://pep-forums.990086.n3.nabble.com/file/n2539001/2008-Neumayer-Raffl-Facebook_protest_FARC.pdf   
Rhue, Lauren, Arun Sundararajan  2011  Digital Access, Political Networks and the Diffusion of Democracy    SSRN, NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-11-03 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1892669   
Rinke, Eike M.  and Maria Röder  2011  Media Ecologies, Communication Culture, and Temporal-Spatial Unfolding: Three Components in a Communication Model of the Egyptian Regime Change  International Journal of Communication  http://mkw.uni-mannheim.de/prof_dr_hartmut_wessler/eike_rinke/rinke_roeder/rinke_roeder.pdf
Robert Gurr, Ted  1970  Why Men Rebel  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970    No eBook available
Ruth Kricheli, Yair Livne, and Beatriz Magaloni 2011  Taking to the Streets: Theory and Evidence on Protests under Authoritarianism  Stanford University's Center on Development, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Program on Poverty and Governance Project  http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/taking_to_the_streets_theory_and_evidence_on_protests_under_authoritarianism/
Senger, Dustin  (with Dr. Cynthia Suopis)  2010  Can Social Media Spread Democracy? A Review of Literature    dustinsenger.com      www.dustinsenger.com/publications/report/Social_Media_Democracy.pdf   
Shehata, Dina  2011  The Fall of the Pharaoh Foreign Affairs  http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67687/dina-shehata/the-fall-of-the-pharaoh
Shirky, Clay    2008  Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations    New York, Penguin, 2008  http://books.google.com/books/about/Here_comes_everybody.html?id=mafZyckH_bAC
Spier, Shaked    2011  CollectiveAction 2.0: The Impact of ICT-Based Social Media on Collective Action – Difference in Degree or Difference in Kind?  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin  http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/master/spier-shaked-2011-08-15/PDF/spier.pdf 
Zimbra, A. Abbasi, and H. Chen    2010  A Cyber-archaeology Approach to Social Movement Research: Framework and Case Study    Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01531.x/abstract   
'''Blog posts theory:'''
Esfandiari, Golnaz  2010  The Twitter Devolution  Foreign Policy June 7 2010    http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/07/the_twitter_revolution_that_wasnt   
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Workshop: Understanding the New Wave of Social Cooperation: A Triangulation of the Arab Revolutions, European Mobilizations and the American Occupy Movement
9:00am-5:15pm
March 21st, 2012
Harvard University- Cambridge, MA (Boston)
Social media hashtag: #21M #occupyresearch IRC: #Berkman

Introduction

This one-day workshop brought together several groups of researchers: members of the Council for European Studies (CES) European Social Movements research network who were in Boston for the Council for European Studies conference (March 22 - 24); scholars at the Berkman Center; and researchers from institutions including the Harvard Kennedy School, MIT's Comparative Media Center, Northwest University and Boston College's'Movements/media Research and Action Project (MRAP).

The workshop was hosted in the Berkman Center at Harvard University and is organized in cooperation with the Council for European Studies (CES) European Social Movements research network and the collaboration of MIT Comparative media and Occupy Research. Organization credits

Goals and Key Objectives

At this event, we undertook a historically grounded comparative approach that attempted to place these protests and their corresponding forms of social cooperation in context and sought to establish an analytical and theoretical grounding for the study of these events. We did not only investigate each individual case, but also assessed the relationships (or lack thereof) between each of the respective cases.

More specifically, the workshop analyzed the particular details associated with each national/regional case and identified and discussed any commonalities between them based on a 'triangulation' of current research and understanding on the Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy movement. To facilitate an interactive discussion on these topics during the event, the specific angle of each of the three planned sessions was defined around clusters of participants' interest:

  • EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Which organizational forms were adopted by the movements in each case? What is the role of social media in shaping these emerging forms? Are there similarities among the cases? What do these cases tell us about the conditions and organizational principles of collective action?

  • WHO MOBILIZED AND WITH WHICH GOALS AND STRATEGIES?

What is the movement composition (i.e, who were the actors and what social bases were involved)? In terms of the actors what is the continuity with previous mobilization waves, such as the global justice movement? What were/are the visions and strategies of change in each of the cases? Is there a common political view or strategy among all the cases? What are the significant divisions between actors within each individual case? Are there similar divisions across different cases, and to what extent are the local and national dynamics important in shaping movement configuration?

  • EXPLANATORY FACTORS AND CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CASES

Why did social mobilization happen in so many countries at once? Are there similar explanatory factors and historical trajectories that explain why mobilization took place? Is it legitimate to talk about a global wave of mobilization? If so, how are these different cases connected and how might we confirm and document the connections between movements? What are the mechanisms of diffusion and translation among the cases?

Objectives:

To achieve the overarching goal of "triangulating" of the current research and understanding on the Arab revolutions, European mobilizations and the American Occupy movement, our specific goals were:

  • Contextualize (both historically and from a socio-political perspective) the impact of digital tools in collective action by connecting the social movements studies tradition with the analysis of Internet-based phenomena, which required drawing connections among European, North American, and Arabic approaches to research and analysis.
  • Map and systematically organize existing research and expertise on the current wave of social cooperation and mobilization.
  • Exchange, share, and discuss current work and facilitate synergy among researchers on the topic.

Format and methodology

The workshop was intended as an exchange between researchers at the event rather than as an opportunity to disseminate information to other researchers or to the general public. To facilitate interaction among researchers, this workshop avoided conference-style presentations and instead was designed to foster dialogue among individuals working in this space. The format was mainly discussion-based around a series of questions, with the opportunity to share papers in advance of the event itself at this wiki. A maximum of 30 participants were expected at this highly-interactive event.

For each session, a moderator introduced the theme followed by very short (5 minute) warm up presentations. Then all participants were invited to discuss any and all issues pertaining to the theme. Each session finalized by someone providing a synthesis of the discussion. For each session, we assigned a note taker and like tweeting.

All workshop discussion were audio recorded for note taking purposes. Live streaming connexion were provided upon request.

Schedule

List of participants

Contact Mayo Fuster Morell at mayofm(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu or Amar Ashar at ashar(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu

Workshop documentation

Notes sessions:

  • 9:30 am – 10:30 am EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES and 10:45 am-11:45 am CONTINUATION EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES Notes session
  • 1:00 pm-2:30 pm WHO MOBILIZED AND WITH WHICH GOALS AND STRATEGIES? Notes session
  • 2:45 pm-4:15 pm EXPLANATORY FACTORS AND CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CASES Notes session
  • 4:15 - 5:00 pm Final reflections and next steps: Theoretical Take-Aways and Ways to Rethink Research Notes takes final session

Slides:

Audio recording of the workshop could be provided upon request.

Map of case/participant

USA Occupy movement (general): Beth Coleman, Maite Tapia, E. Colin Ruggero, Marcos Ancelovici, William A. (Bill) Gamson, Ofer Sharone, Pablo Rey, Dalida María Benfield, Nicole Doerr, Tim McCarthy, Martha Fuentes-Bautista

  • Boston: Sasha Costanza-Chock, Pablo Rey, Nicole Doerr, Jeffrey Juris, Jason Pramas, Sandra Ray, Robert J. Wengronowitz, Gabriel Schaffzin
  • Pittburg: Alice Mattoni
  • Philadelphia: E. Colin Ruggero

Canada: Montreal: Marcos Ancelovici

Arab Spring (general): Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Alicia Solow-Niederman, William A. (Bill) Gamson

  • Tunisia: Zack Brisson
  • Egypt: Lina Attalah, Zeynep Tufekci, Nagla Rizk, Alicia Solow-Niederman, Zack Brisson, Dalida María Benfield

South African Movements: Nicole Doerr

Israeli Summer: William A. (Bill) Gamson

European dimension: Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Francesca Vassallo, Nicole Doerr, Alexander Trechsel

  • Spain: Mayo Fuster Morell, Pablo Rey, Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Marcos Ancelovici
  • Germany: Nicole Doerr, Maite Tapia
  • Greece: Maria Kousis, Sandra Ray
  • Italy: Alice Mattoni
  • UK: Maite Tapia
  • Ireland: Laurence Cox France : Marcos Ancelovici, Francesca Vassallo
  • Poland: Elzbieta Cizewska
  • France: Marcos Ancelovici
  • Russia: Rob Faris, Bruce Etling

Latino-america:

  • Venezuela: Martha Fuentes-Bautista

Distribution of participants per topics

Bibliographic resources

Please add any relevant resource.

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Cottle, Simon 2011 Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research notes Journalism, July 2011; 12 (5) http://www.contexting.me/files/CottleMediaandtheArabUprising.pdf

Diani, Mario (2012) Networks and Internet into Perspective. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

Dupont, Cédric, Florence Passy 2011 Debate: The Arab Spring or How to Explain those Revolutionary Episodes? Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 17, Issue 4, pages 447–451, December 2011 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02037.x/abstract

Eickelman, Dale 2005 New Media in the Arab Middle East and the Emergence of Open Societies in Remaking Muslim Politics ed. Robert Hefner 2005, Princeton University Press http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=MmmVMCBej8oC&oi=fnd&pg=PA37&dq=%22new+media+in+the+arab+middle+east%22&ots=VVVYG9YiIe&sig=Z8J5mbCrhB5slmusWY4GlY20q20#v=onepage&q=%22new%20media%20in%20the%20arab%20middle%20east%22&f=false

Ellis, Christopher J., John Fender 2010 Information Cascades and Revolutionary Regime Transitions The Economic Journal http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02401.x/abstract

Eltantawy, Nahed, Julie B. Wiest 2011 Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Reconsidering Resource Mobilization Theory International Journal of Communication http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1242

eMarketing Egypt 2011 Facebook in Egypt:e-marketing insights August 2011 Gartner Research N/A Farrell, Henry N/A The Internet's Consequences for Politics Not yet published; posted online at Crooked Timber Blog crookedtimber.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ARPS.pdf

Gamson, William A. (2012) Arab Spring, Israeli Summer, and the Process of Cognitive Liberation. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

Ghannam, Jeffrey 2011 Social Media in the Arab World: Leading up to the Uprisings of 2011 Center for International Media Assistance http://cima.ned.org/publications/social-media-arab-world-leading-uprisings-2011-0

Goldstone, Jack A. (2012) Cross-class Coalitions and the Making of the Arab Revolts of 2011. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

Goodwin, Jeff. (2012) Why We Were Surprised (Again) by the Arab Spring. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

Howard, P. 2010 [Book] The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam Oxford University Press, 2010 http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publishing/internetislam/internetislam.html

Howard, Philip N. Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Muzammil Hussain, Will Mari, and Marwa Mazaid 2011 Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring? Project on Information Technology & Political Islam (pITPI) http://pitpi.org/index.php/2011/09/11/opening-closed-regimes-what-was-the-role-of-social-media-during-the-arab-spring/

International Journal of Communication (Vol. 5), http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc

Iqbal, Zubair 2011 Are Democratic Revolts Contagious? Implications for the Arab World Middle East Institute http://www.mei.edu/content/are-democratic-revolts-contagious-implications-arab-world

Kabir, Nahid Afrose 2011 Egypt's Arab Spring: will the flowers blossom? University of South Australia International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding http://www.unisa.edu.au/muslim-understanding/documents/kabir-egypts-arab-spring.pdf

Khamis, Dr. Sahar and Katherine Vaughn 2011 Cyberactivism in the Egyptian Revolution: How Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism Tilted the Balance Published in Issue 13 of Arab Media and Society (Formerly TBS Journal), Summer 2011 http://www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=769

Khondker, Habibul Haque 2011 Role of the New Media in the Arab Spring Globalizations (published by Global Studies Association of North America), Volume 8, Issue 5, 2011 (available via Taylor & Francis Online) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747731.2011.621287

Laipson, Ellen (project director); Courtney C. Radsch (author) 2011 Blogosphere and Social Media (pp. 67-81) Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/research-pdfs/Blogosphere_and_Social_Media.pdf

Lotan, Gilad et al. 2011. “The revolutions were tweeted.” International Journal of Communications 5: 1375-1405.

Lotan, Gilad, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, danah boyd 2011 The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions International Journal of Communication http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1246

Lynch, Marc 2011 After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State Perspectives on Politics (2011), 9 : pp 301-310 http://www.marclynch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/download-Lynch-article.pdf

Lynch, Marc 2007 Blogging the New Arab Public Arab Media and Society (February 2007) http://www.arabmediasociety.com/articles/downloads/20070312155027_AMS1_Marc_Lynch.pdf

Lysenkoa, Volodymyr V. Kevin C. Desouzab 2012 Moldova's internet revolution: Analyzing the role of technologies in various phases of the confrontation Technological Forecasting and Social Change, via Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162511001223

Malcolm Gladwell’s blog post on The New Yorker website, “Does Egypt Need Twitter?” www.newyorker.com (accessed November 11, 2011).

Murphy, Emma C. 2009 Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World: Informational Capitalism and the Public Sphere International Studies Quarterly 53, p. 1131-1153 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2009.00571.x/pdf

Musleh, Abeer 2012 Mobilizing during the Arab Revolutions: Palestinian Youth Speak for Themseleves. In Tejerina, B. and I. Perugorría (Eds.) From Social to Political. New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization, Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco. Email: abmusleh@gmail.com

Nanabhay, Mohamed and Roxane Farmanfarmaian 2011 From spectacle to spectacular: How physical space, social media and mainstream broadcast amplified the public sphere in Egypt's ‘Revolution’ The Journal of North African Studies http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2011.639562

Nepstad, Sharon Erickson (2012) Nonviolent Resistance in the Arab Spring: The Critical Role of Military-Opposition Alliances. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue:http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

Networks and Internet into Perspective" Swiss Political Science Review 17(4): 469–47 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02040.x/pdf

Schneider, Cathy Lisa (2012) Violence and State Repression.Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

Skinner, Julia 2011 Social Media and Revolution: The Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement as Seen through Three Information Studies Paradigms Sprouts Working Papers on Information Systems http://sprouts.aisnet.org/11-169/

Stephan, Maria J. 2011 Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Outcomes and Prospects, Volume 3 Middle East Institute http://www.mei.edu/content/introduction-revolution-and-political-transformation-middle-east-outcomes-and-prospects-vol

Tufekci, Zaynep. 2011. “Too many messages and only one Facebook page.” Technosociology. Blog posted on September 19, 2011. http://technosociology.org, accessed November 11, 2011.

Tufekci, Zaynep. 2011. “New media and the people-powered uprisings.” Technology Review. Blog posted on August 30, 2011. www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/, accessed November 11, 2011.

Tufekci, Zeynep 2011 New Media and the People-Powered Uprisings MIT Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/27122/

Tufekci, Zeynep N/A; publication forthcoming The New Media Ecology and the Dynamics of Collective Action and Repression Under Autocracies Draft provided to Berkman Center team; publication forthcoming in Journal of Communication N/A; draft provided to Berkman Center team; please see Berkman webcast 'From Tehran to Tahrir: Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes,' available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci

Tufekci, Zeynep (2011) Video presentation http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/zeynep & http://technosociology.org/ Keywords/themes: Collective action and technology Focus cases: Arab Spring (Egypt) Related work: Video presentation: From Tehran to Tahrir: Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci

Wilson, Christopher and Alexandra Dunn. 2011a. “Digital media in the Egyptian revolution.” International Journal of Communication 5: 1248-1272.

Wilson, Christopher, Alexandra Dunn 2011 Digital Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Descriptive Analysis from the Tahrir Data Set International Journal of Communication http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1180

Zunes, Stephen 2011 Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Agents of Change, Volume 1 Middle East Institute http://www.mei.edu/content/revolution-and-political-transformation-middle-east-agents-change

Zunes, Stephen 2011 Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East: Government Action and Response, Volume 2 Middle East Institute http://www.mei.edu/content/introduction-revolution-and-political-transformation-middle-east-government-action-and

BLOG POSTS ARAB CASES:

Carvin, Andy 2011 Online Reports Detail Chaos, Deaths in Tunisia; Add Yours NPR.org Jan 13 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/13/132888992/tunisia-protests-social-media

Eltahawy, Mona 2010 Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter are The New Tools of Protest in the Arab World Washington Post, August 7 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080605094.html

Gallagher, Ian 2011 Egyptian police use Facebook and Twitter to track down protesters' names before 'rounding them up' Daily Mail London 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354096/Egypt-protests-Police-use-Facebook-Twitter-track-protesters.html

Greenberg, Andy 2011 As Egyptians Reconnect, Their Government Will Be Watching Forbes.com 2011 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/04/as-egyptians-reconnect-their-government-will-be-watching/

Hirschkind, Charles 2011 The Road to Tahrir Social Science Research Council http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/02/09/the-road-to-tahrir/

Levinson, Charles and Margaret Croker 2011 The Secret Rally That Sparked an Uprising Wall Street Journal Feb 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576135882356532702.html

Masoud, Tarek 2011 An Exit Plan for Mubarak New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/opinion/04masoud.html

Masoud, Tarek 2011 U.S. must back democracy in Egypt regardless Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/09/opinion/la-oe-masoud-egypt-20110209

May, Michelle 2011 How the Egyptian Revolution Inspired Protests in Spain PBS Media Shift: Social Networking http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/how-the-egyptian-revolution-inspired-protests-in-spain161.html

Mccormick, Ty 2011 The Road to Tahrir (Foreign Policy) Foreign Policy August 18 2011 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/18/the_road_to_tahrir

Mostak, Todd 2011 Tarek Masoud discusses the dynamics of Egypt's Revolution Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/2427

N/A; Gulf Stream Blog 2011 Tunisia's Wikileaks Revolution? Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Gulfstream: Analysis from the Dubai Initative http://middleeastinthenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/tunisias-wikileaks-revolution/

N/A; Gulf Stream Blog 2011 When the People Rise Up: Egypt's Massive Protests and Their Unpredictable Outcomes Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Gulfstream: Analysis from the Dubai Initative http://middleeastinthenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/when-the-people-rise-up-egyptian-massive-protests-and-the-unpredictable-outcomes/

N/A; Gulf Stream Blog 2011 When the People Rise Up: When the People Rise Up: Lessons from Tunisia Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Gulfstream: Analysis from the Dubai Initative http://middleeastinthenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/when-the-people-rise-up-lessons-from-tunisia/

Spanish "Indignatos"/15M

Fuster Morell, M (2011) Video presentation: The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/11/morell

Fuster Morell, M. & Subirats, J. (2012). Més enllà d'Internet com a eina "martell” - eina de la vella política: Cap un nou Policy Making?. Els casos del Moviment de Cultura Lliure i pel Procomú Digital i el 15M a Catalunya (Beyond the Internet as a tool "hammer" - tool of the old politics: Towards a New Policy Making?. Cases the Free Culture Movement and the digital commons and 15M in Catalonia). Research report. Institute de Govern i Politiques Publiques (UAB) per l'Escola d'Administracio Publica de Catalunya. (139 pages)

Postill, John. n.d. “Democracy in an age of viral reality,” unpublished manuscript submitted to special edition of Ethnography “Media Ethnography and Public Sphere Engagement,” edited by Debra Vidali and Thomas Tufte.

Taibo, Carlos. 2011. El 15-M en sesenta preguntas. Madrid: Los libros de la Catarata.

Toret, Javier (2011) Una mirada tecnopolítica sobre los primeros días del #15M .http://civilsc.net/node/14

Jornadas Seminario de “Comunicación y Sociedad Civil” de la UOC-IN3: http://civilsc.net/

Purmar, Victor (2012) Los indignados cumplen un año. El éxito tangible del 15M http://www.unitedexplanations.org/2012/03/21/los-indignados-cumplen-un-ano-el-exito-tangible-del-15m/

Occupy Wall Street

American Ethnologist's (AE) May 2012 issue (Volume 39, Issue 2) features three open-access articles on the Occupy movements (by Jeffrey Juris, Maple Razsa/Andrej Kurnik, and David Nugent). ***Photos, abstracts, and direct links to the articles are available on AE's website: http://www.americanethnologist.org Click on the Occupy article titles and you will be taken to the abstracts (and accompanying photos), and at the end of the abstracts you will find live open access links to the full article PDFs in the Wiley-Online Library. 1) Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik, "The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming". 2) Jeffrey S. Juris, "Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation". 3) David Nugent, "Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements"

Adbusters call to occupy wall street: www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html (accessed October 24, 2011).

Costanza-Chock, Sasha (2012) Video presentation Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: http://vimeo.com/groups/occupyvideo/videos/37833652

Collins, Joan. 2012. "Theorizing Wisconsin's 2011 Protests." American Ethnologist 39(1): 1-15.

Collins, Randall. 2001. “Social movements and the focus of emotional attention.” In Passionate Politics, edited by Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper and Francesca Polletta, 27–44. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, "Main Stream Support for a Mainstream Movement, The 99% Movement Comes From and Looks Like the 99%, Profile of web traffic taken from occupywallstreet.org," October 19, 2011, http://occupywallst.org (accessed January 4, 2011).

Graeber, David. 2011. "On Playing By the Rules—The Strange Success of #OccupyWallStreet,"http://www.nakedcapitalism.com (accessed January 4, 2012).

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negro. 2011. "The Fight for 'Real Democracy' at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street." - (October 11), www.foreignaffairs.com (accessed January 5, 2012).

Milan, Stefania. 2011. “Cloud protesting.” Blog posted on October 18, 2011. http://stefi.engagetv.com/node/103, accessed November 11, 2011.

Gamson, Bill. (2012) Cultural Outcomes of the Occupy Movement. December 30, 2011 [with changes added: January 2, 2012]

Rinke, Einke M. and Maria Röder. 2011. “Media ecologies, communication culture, and temporal-spatial unfolding.” International Journal of Communication 5: 1273-1285.

Costanza-Chock, Sasha 2010 [Dissertation] Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement USC Annenberg School of Communication 2010 Completed Dissertions http://annenberg.usc.edu/Research/Student/Dissertations/Completed10/Costanza-ChockS.aspx

Schradie, Jen. 2011. "Why Tents (Still) Matter for the Occupy Movement," www.commondreams.org (January 4, 2012).

Suresh, Fernando Occupy Vancouver Organizer on Dec 27, 2011Occupy My Soul by http://thenextedge.org/2011/12/occupy-my-soul/

Ruggero, E, Colin (2011). "Spirit of ’76: Occupy Philadelphia, Voicelessness, and the Challenge of Growing the Occupy Wall Street Movement" Deliberately Considered, November 2011. Blog post: [1]

Gamson, Bill. (2012) Boston College Cultural Outcomes of the Occupy Movement. December 30, 2011 [with changes added: January 2, 2012]

Blogs on OWS:

Meyer David's Blog: http://politicsoutdoors.com/tag/occupy/ and http://politicsoutdoors.com/tag/occupy-wall-street/;

The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame <http://cssm.nd.edu/>: http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/tag/occupy-movement/;

Foreign Affairs articles on OWS: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/node/133733.

Russia

By John Kelly, Vladimir Barash, Karina Alexanyan, Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, Urs Gasser, and John Palfrey “Mapping Russian Twitter” <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2012/mapping_russian_twitter>

Comparison of several cases

Ancelovici, Marcos (2012) “Le mouvement Occupy et la question des inégalités: Ce que le slogan ‘Nous sommes les 99 %’ dit et ne dit pas.” In F. Dupuis-Déri, ed. Par dessus le marché! Rélexions critiques sur le capitalisme. Montreal: Écosociété. [2]

Rey, Pablo (2011) Gallery of different twitter-newspaper visualizations. http://numeroteca.org/cat/frontpage-newspaper/

Rey, Pablo (2011) Post: Analyzing newspapers’ front pages to interpret the Mainstream Media ecology. Researching the #15M, #Occupy movement and the Arab Spring. Interested in the relationship between Mainstream Media and social Media(Twitter): http://civic.mit.edu/blog/pablo/analyzing-newspapers-front-pages

Gamson, William A. (2012) Arab Spring, Israeli Summer, and the Process of Cognitive Liberation. Swiss Political Science Review. Special issue: http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=0jcva5g0090vlet42smd&u=19087420&f=h

USA - SPAIN

Fuster Morell, M (2012) Blog post Report on OWS Forum on the commons: http://www.onlinecreation.info/?p=492

Theory

Aday, Sean, Harry Farrell, Marc Lynch, and John Sides 2010 Special Report: Advancing New Media Research United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/publications/advancing-new-media-research

Aday, Sean, Harry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly, & Ethan Zuckerman 2010 Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/publications/blogs-and-bullets-new-media-in-contentious-politics

Bajpai, Kartikeya and Anuj Jaiswal 2011 A Framework for Analyzing Collective Action Events on Twitter Proceedings of the 8th International ISCRAM Conference--Lisbon, Portugal, May 2011 www.iscramlive.org/ISCRAM2011/proceedings/papers/119.pdf

Benkler, Yochai 2006 (hardcover publication) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (see especially Chapter 7, "Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere" Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike License http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page#Reviews_and_Blogs

Castells, Manuel 2009 Communication Power Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press Book reviews are available at: http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/32/6/1043.full.pdf+html?rss=1 (published in the journal Media Culture Society) or http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10584609.2010.517097 (published in the journal Political Communication)

Couldry, Nick, James Curran (eds.); W. Lance Bennett (author) 2003 Chapter 2: New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism Contesting media power: alternative media in a networked world (book) http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/assets/documents/pdf/newmediapower.pdf

della Porta, Donatella Sidney Tarrow (eds). (2005) Transnational Protest and Global Activism, New York, Rowman and Littlefield.

della Porta, Donatella (ed.), 2009. Democracy in Social Movements, Houndsmill, Palgrave.

Diamond, Larry 2010 Liberation Technology Journal of Democracy 21(3):69-83 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v021/21.3.diamond.html Earle, Lucy 2011 Literature Review on the Dynamics of Social Movements in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Emerging Issues Research Service of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/EIRS13.pdf

Edmond, Chris 2011 Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change The National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/papers/w17395.pdf

Goldstone, Jack 2011 Understanding the Revolutions of 2011 Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67694/jack-a-goldstone/understanding-the-revolutions-of-2011

Goldstone, Jack Ted Robert Gurr and Farrokh Moshiri, eds. 1991 [Book] Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century Boulder: Westview Press, 1991 No eBook available

González-Bailón, "Sandra , Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Alejandro Rivero & Yamir Moreno" 2011 The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network Scientific Reports 1, Article number: 197, December 2011 http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111215/srep00197/full/srep00197.html

Huntington, Samuel P. 1991 [Book] The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 No eBook available

McAdam, D., Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly 2001 Dynamics of Contention New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001 http://site.ebrary.com.library.aucegypt.edu:2048/lib/aucairo/docDetail.action?docID=10005733

Meier, Patrick 2011 Chapter 2: From Evidence to Model in Do "Liberation Technologies" Change the Balance of Power Between Repressive Regimes and Civil Society? DRAFT DRAFT of Stanford University thesis http://irevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/meier-dissertation-final.pdf

Mourtada, R. and Fadi Salem (2011) Produced by DSG’s Governance and Innovation Program and co-authored by Racha Mourtada and Fadi Salem 2011 Facebook Usage: Factors and Analysis Dubai School of Government, Arab Social Media Report, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Jan. 2011 http://www.dsg.ae/NEWSANDEVENTS/UpcomingEvents/ASMRHome.aspx

Mourtada, R. and Fadi Salem Produced by DSG’s Governance and Innovation Program and co-authored by Racha Mourtada and Fadi Salem 2011 Civil Movements: The Impact of Facebook and Twitter Dubai School of Government, Arab Social Media Report, Vol. 1, Issue 2, May 2011 http://www.dsg.ae/NEWSANDEVENTS/UpcomingEvents/ASMROverview2.aspx

Neumayer, Christina and Celina Raffl 2008 Facebook for Global Protest: The Potential and Limits of Social Software for Grassroots Activism Prato CIRN 2008 Community Infomatics Conference: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality? Refereed Paper http://pep-forums.990086.n3.nabble.com/file/n2539001/2008-Neumayer-Raffl-Facebook_protest_FARC.pdf

Rhue, Lauren, Arun Sundararajan 2011 Digital Access, Political Networks and the Diffusion of Democracy SSRN, NYU Working Paper No. CEDER-11-03 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1892669

Rinke, Eike M. and Maria Röder 2011 Media Ecologies, Communication Culture, and Temporal-Spatial Unfolding: Three Components in a Communication Model of the Egyptian Regime Change International Journal of Communication http://mkw.uni-mannheim.de/prof_dr_hartmut_wessler/eike_rinke/rinke_roeder/rinke_roeder.pdf

Robert Gurr, Ted 1970 Why Men Rebel Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970 No eBook available

Ruth Kricheli, Yair Livne, and Beatriz Magaloni 2011 Taking to the Streets: Theory and Evidence on Protests under Authoritarianism Stanford University's Center on Development, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Program on Poverty and Governance Project http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/taking_to_the_streets_theory_and_evidence_on_protests_under_authoritarianism/

Senger, Dustin (with Dr. Cynthia Suopis) 2010 Can Social Media Spread Democracy? A Review of Literature dustinsenger.com www.dustinsenger.com/publications/report/Social_Media_Democracy.pdf

Shehata, Dina 2011 The Fall of the Pharaoh Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67687/dina-shehata/the-fall-of-the-pharaoh

Shirky, Clay 2008 Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations New York, Penguin, 2008 http://books.google.com/books/about/Here_comes_everybody.html?id=mafZyckH_bAC

Spier, Shaked 2011 CollectiveAction 2.0: The Impact of ICT-Based Social Media on Collective Action – Difference in Degree or Difference in Kind? Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/master/spier-shaked-2011-08-15/PDF/spier.pdf

Zimbra, A. Abbasi, and H. Chen 2010 A Cyber-archaeology Approach to Social Movement Research: Framework and Case Study Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01531.x/abstract


Blog posts theory:

Esfandiari, Golnaz 2010 The Twitter Devolution Foreign Policy June 7 2010 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/07/the_twitter_revolution_that_wasnt

Gladwell, Malcolm and Clay Shirky 2011 From Innovation to Revolution: Do Social Media Make Protests Possible? Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67325/malcolm-gladwell-and-clay-shirky/from-innovation-to-revolution

Shirky, Clay 2011 The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change Foreign Affairs http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67038/clay-shirky/the-political-power-of-social-media

Others

Bauwens, Michel 'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation. The Occupy Wall Street movement is a model for a new economic paradigm, in which value is first created by communities. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/2012361233474499.html

Observatorio Metropolitano (Octubre 2011). Crisis y revolucion en Europa. Traficantes de suenyos: Madrid. (Spanish) http://traficantes.net/index.php/editorial/catalogo/otras/Crisis-y-revolucion-en-Europa This analysis by Observatorio Metropolitano (October 2011) links the social mobilizaions from northern Africa and Europe.

Occupy research resources:

Chinese Government Reaction to OWS by newmediadev2011 http://newmediadev2011.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Chinese+Government+Reaction+to+OWS

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