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Do independent and activist bloggers see themselves as journalists in the digital era?

By on October 26, 2012 in Blogging, Digital Activism, Journalism, Social Movements

From the IMC at the WTO to the PPL at the DNC Pundits claim that the Internet has changed everything about this election – from Big Bird/Binder/Bayonet memes to Big Brother Data on your voting habits. But what about how independent and activist bloggers see themselves as journalists in the digital era? One of the […]

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Iron Law 2.0 – Digital Democracy or Hierarchy?

By on September 11, 2012 in Academia, Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Labor, Social Movements, Sociology, Tea Party, The South

On  Wednesday, September 12th at noon, I’ll be speaking in Chapel Hill at  UNC’s Carroll Hall’s Freedom Forum Conference Center in a talk sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Sociology. I’ll be talking about my latest research project: Does digital technology enable social movement organizations to be more democratic?  In the […]

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Occupy Needs to Separate to Unite

By on August 30, 2012 in Blogging, Digital Activism, Labor, Occupy, Social Movements, Sociology, Twitter, Unions

I’m heading to North Carolina with my first stop in Charlotte to research labor organizations protesting at the Democratic National Convention. As with any national action like this, groups build alliances. In this case, two of the main forces are Occupy and labor. They have come together under the banner of Occupy Wall Street South. These […]

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