Nicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
Distributed Denial of Service Actions and the Challenge of Civil Disobedience on the Internet
This thesis examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism.
Activist DDOS Campaigns: When Similies and Metaphors Fail
“DDOS as a tool cannot be wholly condemn or lauded without its surrounding context.”
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv”
Sasha Costanza-Chock on the tools, skills, social practices, and norms movement participants deploy to create, circulate, curate, and amplify their media.
Beth Coleman announced as 2011-12 Berkman Fellow
Harvard University Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has announced its fellows for 2011-12, including CMS professor Beth Coleman.
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement”
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including social movements, participatory technology design, and participatory research.
RaceFail: Race and the Fantastic
My role in the Civic Engagement project was writing a case study about an online debacle popularly referred to as “RaceFail ’09”.
