Contemporary Social Movements and the Web

Social Movements are decentralising in the modern world. Web 2.0 has driven latency structures in social movements, and made activism more personal than ever before, but it has also introduced the concept of slacktivism. Micro-Macro relationships are becoming important theoretical frameworks for Social Movement research on the Web - has the Global Justice Movement of 1999 become Global Justice Networks in 2013?

Disciplinary Differences: directed reading 1

Two articles outlining some early work on interdisciplinarity. Interesting as much for the style of the papers and the contents. You can download copies of the papers from this share. You can also access the full text via TDNET through the university library web site. Instructions provided.