Saturday, February 14, 2009

Digital Resistance


Patrick Meier is completing a dissertation on digital activism, examining, in very basic terms, whether the "diffusion of ICTs have any statistically significant impact on the frequency of protests in repressive environments between 1990-2007." (post to iDC mailing list, 2009 2 13). he describers Digital Resistance as the the junction between digital activism and and civil resistance. Here's his discussion of the concepts: Digital Resistance