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First discussion

How? Emerging organizational logics, modes of interaction and involvement with social media.

• Collective action and digital media: People working on the area and interested: Mayo Fuster Morell, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Ethan Zuckerman (TBC), Rob Faris, Zeynep Tufekci, Bruce Etling, Nagla Rizk, Colin Maclay, Pablo Rey, Jeffrey Juris, and Jason Pramas, Mike Ananny, Beth Coleman,

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• Internal performative dynamics and democratic conceptions: People working on the area and interested: Nicole Doerr (Decision making), Christian Scholl (Tensions with Bottom-up democracy); and, Marcos Ancelovici (Participative democracy and the role of assemblies).

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Second discussion

Is this really a global wave of protest? If so, Why // Explanatory factors and cases connections, and how the wave is diffused and translated among the several cases? Are there similar factors between them? Why did social mobilization happen in so many countries at once?.

• Historical perspective: People working on the area and interested: Laurence Cox (Historical contextualization), Mayo Fuster Morell and Jeffrey Juris (Connections with previous waves of movilizations – Global Justice Movement)

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• Explanatory factors:People working on the area and interested: Jason Pramas (Precarious working conditions in Boston) Alice Mattoni (Labor Precarity in Italy), Charlotte Ryan (Social exclusion: Homeless movement)

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• How the wave diffuse and translate among the several cases? People working on the area and interested: Ana Margarida Esteves (Chronology of events and the "contagion" effect) Maite Tapia (Diffusion of community organizing) Nicole Doerr (Translation and democracy) Cristina Flesher Fominaya (brief chronology and methodological issues); Maite Tapia (Is there potential for a shift of scale (e.g., to an international level)?)

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Third discussion

Movement composition and visions/strategies of change: Actors involved, in terms (e.g.) of social groups mobilized vs those passive and those hostile, of different political and cultural traditions involved or not involved.

• Movement composition: People working on the area and interested: Marcos Ancelovici (Who the occupiers were and what they wanted) Charlotte Ryan (Homeless movement) Alice Mattoni (Precarity movement in Italy) Maite Tapia (The role of the labor movement and whether/how they shaped the rise of these new social movements) Mayo Fuster Morell (Free culture movement trajectory into 15M in Spain)

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• Visions/strategies of change: People working on the area and interested: Mayo Fuster Morell (Ecology of strategies; commons umbrella) Marcos Ancelovici (Significance, usefulness and limits of framing demands in terms of “we are the 99%”; the importance of problem-solving goals in social movements (what difference do they make for mobilization and for the sustainability of the movement?), Colin Ruggero (Micropoltics of Social Change)

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Map of places/cases

Occupy movement (general): Mike Ananny, Beth Coleman, Ana Margarida Esteves, Maite Tapia Boston : Sasha Costanza-Chock, Pablo Rey (TBC), Nicole Doerr, Jeffrey Juris, Charlotte Ryan, Jason Pramas Pittburg : Alice Mattoni Philadelphia: Colin Ruggero Canada: Montreal : Marcos Ancelovici

Arab Spring (general) Rob Faris, Bruce Etling, Tunisia : Ethan Zuckerman (TBC) Egypt : Zeynep Tufekci, Nagla Rizk

European dimension: Christian Scholl, Cristina María Flesher Fominaya and Nicole Doerr Spain : Mayo Fuster Morell, Pablo Rey, Cristina María Flesher Fominaya, Marcos Ancelovici Germany : Nicole Doerr, Maite Tapia Italy : Alice Mattoni UK: Maite Tapia Ireland : Laurence Cox France : Marcos Ancelovici, Francesca Vassallo Amsterdam : Christian Scholl Portugal : Ana Margarida Esteves Poland : Elzbieta Cizewska