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Henry Thoreau and 'Civil Disobedience' - 0 views

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  • Prior to his arrest, Thoreau had lived a quiet, solitary life at Walden, an isolated pond in the woods about a mile and a half from Concord. He now returned to Walden to mull over two questions: (1) Why do some men obey laws without asking if the laws are just or unjust; and, (2) why do others obey laws they think are wrong?
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      Audrey B on 31 May 10
       
      The two questions that led Thoreau to go to Walden Pond.
  • Transcendentalism became Thoreau’s intellectual training ground. His first appearance in print was a poem entitled “Sympathy” published in the first issue of The Dial, a Transcendentalist paper. As Transcendentalists migrated to Concord, one by one, Thoreau was exposed to all facets of the movement and took his place in its inner circle. At Emerson’s suggestion, he kept a daily journal, from which most of Walden was eventually culled. [12]     But Thoreau still longed for a life both concrete and spiritual. He wanted to translate his thoughts into action. While Transcendentalists praised nature, Thoreau walked through it.
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      Audrey B on 31 May 10
       
      So while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond in solitude, he was also apart of the Transcendentalist movement. "Thoreau was exposed to all facets of the movement and took his place in its inner circle...he kept a daily journal from which most of Walden was eventually culled." Thoreau lived as an observer and researcher of other people's actions. He wanted to learn more and eventually "translate his thoughts into action." Translating his thoughts to action took years but eventually lead to "Civil Disobedience"--an essay written in result of turning thoughts into action.
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On Electronic Civil Disobedience - 1 views

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Mexican War Electronic Civil Disobedience ECD Thoreau

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    Thoreau and ECD
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Thoreau Reader | Diigo - 0 views

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Thoreau Walden Emerson Civil Disobedience Action

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    Thoreau's mode in Walden translating over to Civil Disobedience
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What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter? | VF Daily | Vanity Fair ... - 0 views

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Martin Luther King twitter civil disobedience

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    Baratunde Thurston imagines how the civil rights leader would have expressed himself in 140 characters. It is interesting to see that MLK was a reader and follower of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". There is civil disobedience going on all across the web. Was Thoreau also a precursor for an influx of electronic civil opposition?
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JSTOR: Modern Language Notes, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Apr., 1960), pp. 297-304 - 0 views

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Thoreau Action Walden Civil Disobedience

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    Comparing Thoreau's gestures and actions around the times of Walden and "Civil Disobedience"
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In Iran, Cyber-activism Without the Middle-man - PCWorld - 1 views

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Iran Election Cyber Twitter YouTube Protest

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  • Twitter, which are giving Iranian citizens and supporters of the government protests there new ways of involving themselves in the political struggle.
  • They've let Iranians and supporters of the protesters share information, even within the centrally controlled Internet service in Iran and connected people like Papillon to a country on the other side of the world.
  • Proxy servers are Web sites that let people visit parts of the Internet that would normally be blocked to them.
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      Audrey B on 22 May 10
       
      Allowing people in Iran to speak up!
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  • Web 2.0 is paving new routes around Internet censorship.
  • Nowhere is Internet activism more visible than on Twitter
  • t's amazing how naturally people who are not necessarily technical have found ways to organize information on-line and decide who to trust using things as simple as Twitter -- a 140 character micro-blogging service with a basic search feature. "It's a pretty incredible counter-intelligence network," he said.
  • In recent days these social media networks are getting more important as mainstream reporters have been confined to their hotel rooms on government orders or forced to head home when their visas expire.On YouTube users can find street scenes in Iran, including videos of protesters being beaten and shot by police. "The traditional media is in some ways not able to provide it because there are restrictions placed on them by the Iranian government," said YouTube spokesman Scott Rubin ."It's the citizens stealing the story."
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      Audrey B on 22 May 10
       
      News reporters assist in allowing civil disobedience. It mentions that on YouTube, there are certain videos that would not be shown on public television. However, by using the web, we are not limited in what we can see in the world. Things are not hidden from us. The web tells it how it is and doesn't beat around the bush. This is important. Citizens are telling the story. Afterall, shouldn't government be run by the people? This is what Thoreau believed and what he practiced resulting in the writing of his revolutionary essay "Civil Disobedience". Hearing, Tweeting, and Viewing the stories of the citizens, of those being attacked or denied certain rights creates an appeal to unite and defy government (in this case). But to do so civily.
  • proxy servers have become a critical conduit for information.
  • "Twitter is such a cut-out-the middleman type of situation,"
  • This has made information available to a wider group of people, but it in addition to spreading information about proxy servers, it has made home-grown attack tools available to a wider audience.
  • But soon the anti-government activists realized that DOS attacks were maybe not such a good idea. Not only is it illegal in many countries to launch a DOS attack, but this type of activity also slows down the network throughout Iran, making it hard to get messages out.
  • Twitter, in particular, has proven particularly adept at organizing people and information, said Zittrain. Although Proxies are the most popular way of reaching Twitter, updates can also be sent via other Web applications, SMS (Short Message Service) or even e-mail. "It's a byproduct of the way Twitter was built," he said. "The fact that the APIs are so open has meant that there are already lots of ways to get data in and out of Twitter, that do not rely on direct access to Twitter.com."
  • Audrey B on 22 May 10
     
    Twitter and YouTube both revolutionizing the way to civily defy government.
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