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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"occupy wall street"”.
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Occupy Wall Street: An "Imaginative" Exploration of the September, 2011 Protests in New York City
The Occupy Wall Street Movement on September 17, 2011 that involved public protest and the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district, is an important example of mass public dissent in American history. The conflict that lies at the heart of the protests is between two …
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Social movements using social media in a mined and censored world: examples in the United States and China
… in the United States and China through the Occupy Wall Street social movement and labor protest activity at the Foxconn, Foshan, and Lock factories. The question posed relates to the level of investment the U.S. and Chinese governments have made in data mining and data censorship to create …
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Consensus & Colonialism: critiquing technologies of the (de)colonial project
… practice, paying particular attention to Occupy Wall Street, the Zapatistas of Mexico, and Southerners on New Ground (SONG)—a regionally focused non-profit organization based in the southern United States. I develop techno-seduction as a term to deconstruct the lure of technological …
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Without Content: Rhetoric, American Anarchism, And The End(s) Of Radical Politics
… in light of the contemporary Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, I develop what I call "anarchic rhetoric," and suggest that rhetoricians, critical theorists, and those on the Left would do well to look beyond the dialectical and State-based models of communicative interaction that …
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Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinities and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris
… 2011 Arab Revolts, and the subsequent worldwide Occupy movement, social movement scholars faced sudden, powerful mass mobilisations without easily identifiable resources, networks, or forms of organisation underlying them. These instances of mobilisation beyond the scope of what we traditionally …
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From huelga! to undocumented and unafraid! : a comparative study of media strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
… groundbreaking global protests: The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the "Indignados" Movement in Spain. However, determinism and rhetoric of newness have led to phrases like "Twitter Revolution," while tools and gadgets often overshadow human agency and grassroots efforts. In fact, media and …
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Studying Network Structural Changes Using Information Event Signatures
… statistics to analyze over 64 million Occupy movement tweets, this dissertation makes four essential contributions that enhance our understanding of the relationship between the flow of information and the dynamics of social networks. First, based on a large set of Twitter data related …
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… inequality. The first chapter uses accounts of Occupy Wall Street to understand how the movement conceptualized class inequality as a result of hierarchical power and attempted to implement horizontal tactics including the people's microphone. I then look to Ben Lerner's novel 10:04 and Rachel …
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Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice
… Arab Spring and the Egyptian revolution, the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the United States, the execution of Osama Bin Laden, and presidential elections in both the United States and Egypt. Sites of Passage, the final exhibition, ran from September 9, 2011-February 14, 2012 (extended) at …
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Tactical Dramaturgies: Media, the State, and the Performance of Place-Based Activism
… analysis of resistant practices of Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). In these sites I explore moments of performative resistance that challenge the supremacy of state power, dominion over language and voice, control of the body, and agency over …
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Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making
… action alliances of the 1970s to the recent Occupy Wall Street movements of 2011-2012, the consensus process has often been idolized as the most radically democratic and anarchist method of decision-making, considered as a way to remove or eradicate power from group deliberation. Contrary to …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… and other social media in the Arab Spring, #Occupy Wall Street, and Mexico's #YoSoy132 student movement have all generated excitement about the new uses of digital technology in organized social movements. This dissertation concerns itself with media and social transformation, but recognizes …
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The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
… ramifications. Popular uprisings, such as the Occupy Wall Street Movement, attest to the widespread concern of many. Activist scholar, Slavoj Žižek (2012) urges the embedding of the occupiers’ concerns beyond the visible spectacle of the movement. He urges wider commitment to the transformation …