Popular Publics: Street Protest and Plaza Preachers in Caracas

Waves of Protest: Popular Struggle in El Salvador, 1925-2005

finance, protest and walāyah: occupy wall street in the mirror of islam

the cycle of protests that swept the united states beginning in 2010 has its roots in the growing disillusionment of a significant portion of the american populace in the prospects and opportunities for growth and development. despite the extensive myopia of various sectors of the american public vis a vis the rest of the world, if there is one thing much of the american public holds dear is th...

Preachers who are not believers.

There are systemic features of contemporary Christianity that create an almost invisible class of non-believing clergy, ensnared in their ministries by a web of obligations, constraints, comforts, and community. Exemplars from five Protestant denominations, Southern Baptist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Methodist and Church of Christ, were found and confidentially interviewed at lengt...

(Re)Tweeting in the service of protest: Digital composition and circulation in the Occupy Wall Street movement

Based on 17 in-depth interviews with people involved in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, we present a typology of how Twitter is used in the service of protest that draws attention to its utilization in conjunction with face-to-face actions. The OWS case study demonstrates how the rapid digital circulation of texts allows protestors to quickly build a geographically dispersed, networked c...

Facebook, Youth and Privacy in Networked Publics

Media accounts would have us believe that today’s youth are a particularly narcissistic generation. Young adults are often portrayed as exhibitionists who share personal information excessively and only react if “burned” by experience. This paper reports results from 450 surveys of young adults on social network site usage and privacy and surveillance experiences as well as from a historical ar...