Cali Net Neutrality Law; Facebook FUBAR; Hacking the Vote; The New Season; Privacy Law Debate; Taking the Public Pulse
Dark Web; Duterte's Tech-fueled Drug War; Covers Uncovered; Data Summit; Trust Busting
Conservative Confusion; Social Media's Long March; They Got Algorithm; How to Hack an Election; The Macedonian Connection; Bye, Voice
Prison Strike; Superdelegates and Race; Star-crossed Platonics; New Patriotism; Pinterest Meets 8chan; Animal Crackers
Missing News; Single Payer Snuff Job; They're Watching What the Kids are Writing; Silicon Valley Frankenstein; King Shaun
Ax for Alex; Boom or Bust?; Tronc's Dirty Work; Press Hate; The Game in Spain
Although Janus threatens to deal a blow to U.S. unions, the West Virginia teacher strike suggests a way forward for organized labor. The strike effectively used social media as a tool for mass organization, centered on the needs of the community, and linked its cause to issues of social justice.
In early February, the existence of a draft Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report came to light, which calls for long-term surveillance of Sunni Muslim immigrants.
Successful social movements rarely travel along a linear route toward victory, or a fast one. Even with new digital media, organizing for change requires all the old virtues.
There’s no question that social and digital media are transforming the way movements are built and organized. But technology by itself has never overthrown a tyrant nor seized state power. Self-expression is a potent thing, but as a plan of action it’s just a start. Progress demands that the contemporary social media-based resistance overcome its fear and loathing of leadership, organization and ideology.
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