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John Fenn

Student protesters in London use Google Maps to outwit police "kettling" - Boing Boing - 2 views

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    Fantastic use of Google Maps by protesting students in the U.K. to outwit police/authorities...certainly connects to Little Brother scenario.
John Fenn

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Perhaps a revolution is not what we need - 0 views

  • thousands of people with internet access spent days fixated on a geographically-remote street protest.
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      An emergent-and dynamic/momentary-media public?
  • During a visit to our research group last week, Steven Classen reminded us that our cultural memory of the civil-rights era is built on an incomplete record.
  • the kind that does not leave traces to be collected and preserved in an archive.
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  • As social media networks and their users increasingly cross national boundaries, the line between "high" and "low" risks will blur. Depending on one's geographic, cultural, and religious position, participation in social media activism may involve considerable risks: social ostracization, joblessness, displacement, or spiritual alienation
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      the slippery or non-permanent boundaries of "public"...as a place, as a group, as a site for activity?
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