Tag: internet

Log On! the Rise of the Digital Party

On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by Paolo Gerbaudo to discuss his new book ‘The Digital Party’: from hyperleaders to superbases, the end of the cadre and the effect of the internet on how people think about politics.
Solidarity at Sea: Could Facebook Help Cruise Workers Fight Back?
Cruise workers experience both some of the worst working conditions and unique barriers to collective organising. Can social media networks help crew members overcome these barriers and provide a starting point for building a movement?
5 Reasons Not to be a Woman in the UK in 2014
From reproductive rights to Ukip to the internet, women are bearing the brunt of an onslaught which threatens both women's rights and maybe even the sisterhood which won them. Here Tabitha Bast explores what's making 2014 such a bad year to be a woman in the UK.
7 Reasons ‘Radical’ Publishers are Getting OWNED by the Internet
Lawrence and Wishart, publishers of the Marx-Engels Collected Works (MECW), the most complete works available in English, recently issued an instruction to the Marxists.org internet archive to take down their digitised and freely-available copies of its text. Subsequently, the internet struck back.
On The Figure Of The Troll
In this short piece 'ByStrategy' offers a brief genealogy of the term troll, examining why its meaning has been subject to certain changes with the rise of commercially successful 'social media' platforms.