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 […]
Tag Archives | Social Movements
Iron Law 2.0 – Digital Democracy or Hierarchy?
By schradie on September 11, 2012 in Academia, Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Labor, Social Movements, Sociology, Tea Party, The South
Occupy Needs to Separate to Unite
By schradie 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 […]
