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Most popular social networks are designed to support what media critic Thomas de Zengotita has called the “flattered self,” constantly craving attention. The main purpose of these networks is to make a profit for large corporations.

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Meet financial advisor Mike Morgan. He started an anti-Goldman Sachs website to examine "what part Goldman Sachs and their executives played in the current Global Economic Crisis." The investment bank and its lawyers told him to cease and desist. So Morga

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Twitter P2P-Activism P2P-Moldova P2P

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Economic activism focuses on the idea of using one's wealth to represent one's values. For the purposes of this article wealth is represented in two different ways. The first way is the financial resources, savings, stocks, bonds, etc. that a person has.

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Most popular social networks are designed to support the "flattered self" and to make a profit for large corporations. Evolver.net is an independent network designed to engage people in transforming their own consciousness and their local communities.

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Social-Network-Sites P2P-Activism P2P

Now, two days later, another battle is raging, a far less serious one. Inquiring internet users want to know: Was this a twitter-driven revolution? My friend and colleague Evgeny Morozov appears to have started the Twitter meme, with a thoughtful post in

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P2P-Moldova Social-Media Twitter P2P-Activism P2P

The sea of young people reflected the deep generation gap that has developed in Moldova, and the protesters used their generation’s tools, gathering the crowd by enlisting text-messaging, Facebook and Twitter, the social messaging network. The protesters

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A crowd of more than 10,000 young Moldovans materialized seemingly out of nowhere on Tuesday to protest against Moldova’s Communist leadership, ransacking government buildings and clashing with the police. The sea of young people reflected the deep genera

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Voices from the Crowd exists to create individual and crowd portraits at protests and public political events. It is also, simply, a way of experiencing an event you couldn't make

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P2P-Activism P2P-UK P2P

Social media has been a great tool for spreading awareness about environmental and green issues. Most recently, social media was used to spread the word about Earth Hour and the cost of electricity use. Once again, social media is being used to make an im

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P2P-Ecology Social-Media P2P-Activism Climate-Change P2P

Proposals before the EU parliament to limit access to the internet across Europe are to be voted on very soon. If passed, the new law will permit your broadband provider to impose " conditions limiting access to and/or use of services and applications". D

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Censorship P2P-Europe P2P-Movements Network-Neutrality P2P-Activism P2P

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P2P-China P2P-Activism Censorship P2P

A new form of vigilantism - cyber-activism - has gained currency in India as a powerful tool to mobilize public opinion, strengthen civic engagement, invite democratic participation or even encourage "electronic" civil disobedience.

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P2P-Activism P2P-India P2P

Online social activism - what I call the CauseWired sector - is rapidly coming of age. Innovative web tools, online story-telling, and social media are more often than not at the center of the modern social enterprise, and not on the edges. The reason is

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