In this post, REFRAME co-managing editor Dr Tanya Kant interviews Re.Framing Activism editor Dr Eleftheria Lekakis on her new monograph: Consumer Activism, Promotional Culture and Resistance. Dr Lekakis’s book takes as its premise that consumption and resistance are entwined. From buying fair-trade, to celebrity advocates for social causes, to subvertising and anti-consumerist grassroots movements, consumer…
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Social Media and the Future of the Labour Movement
by Lina Dencik The use of social media platforms for campaigning and protests in recent years has illustrated some important aspects about the possibilities as well as the challenges of digital activism in the contemporary global political economy. Although little attention has been paid to the role of unions and workers’ organisations in recent uprisings,…
Small resistances to Big Data: Protecting – and politicising – personal data trails
Tanya Kant is a doctoral researcher in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. Her current research focuses on personalisation on popular online platforms. She is currently conducting interviews with users of tracker blocking tools, especially Ghostery, about their experiences of data tracking, online privacy and…
Occupy: New Spaces for Resistance Zine
RE.FRAMING ACTIVISM is based at the University of Sussex where students and staff are fighting the senior management’s plans to privatise university services. Today, hundreds of protesters are expected to march across the university campus for a national anti-privatisation demonstration and we will be tweeting throughout. We are also publishing a free zine produced by…