Young people are revolting on the internet

Young people are revolting on the Internet

Wallington 8.3.11

Charlie BeckettDirector, POLIS

London School of Economicswww.polismedia.org

@charliebeckett

http://www.polismedia.org/

1971

1971 Protest

1971 Protest

1971 Protest

Protest 2011

Protest 2011

1971 Political Journalism

1971 Political Journalism

1976

2011: Middle East in flamesMohamed Bouazizi

http://nos.nl/video/209867-begrafenis-mohammed-bouazizi.html

Tunisia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkOosu6WSs&feature=player_embedded

Networked media activism

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2uv4a_tunisie-avion-presidentiel-a-quoi-e_news%23from=embed

WikiLeaks and Tunisia

WikiLeaks Cable

• “President Ben Ali is aging, his regime is sclerotic and there is no clear successor. Many Tunisians are frustrated by the lack of political freedom and angered by First Family corruption, high unemployment and regional inequities. …The result: Tunisia is troubled”

Tunisia – Al JazeeraNetworked Journalism

Libya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrHtsvkjDU

The power of diffuse networks of ‘weak ties’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2guKJfvq4uI

UK networked protest?

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/

Questions for all of us

• What’s the difference between 1971 and 2011?• What’s different about the Middle

East and the UK?• What difference does it make?

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/

Young people are revolting on the Internet

Wallington 8.3.11

Charlie BeckettDirector, POLIS

London School of Economicswww.polismedia.org

@charliebeckett

http://www.polismedia.org/

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Young people are revolting on the internet