Hello,
The recent massive public demonstrations in Budapest against a repressive
internet tax, amongst other issues, raises once again questions of the role of
social media (and Facebook in particular) as mobilising vehicles for social
protest and political activism. As Alice Neerson writes in
Hi, I am very sorry but this tax is not really much, the other side had
allready proposed it, it was a left idea, whatever right and left
still mean, and democracy is a very big word. Why do you blame the state
for the fact that there is no real opposition in more serious questions?
Maybe you
Thanks a lot, Allan, this is interesting. The question imho is not how social
media relate to the inadequate responses of political parties but if they will
generate sustainable 'new institutional forms' over time. What if the current
social media only produce one-off events? Protests without a
A problem with all of this is that the ???hand???s off the Internet??? position
is at the very core of a neo-liberal take down of the social contract. The
Internet erodes local tax bases, shifts wealth from the poor to the rich, from
poor countries to rich ones; and the rallying cry for
