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This chapter explores the visceral and performative dimensions of activist networking through a comparative ethnographic analysis of anti-corporate globalization mobilizations in Prague and Barcelona.
Jeffrey S. Juris • Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization (Experimental Futures)
Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Both of these abstractions will create more mechanisms for digital 3rd places.
Reggie James • Y2k-20 Will Come In 3rd Place
Civic Design Ceasar McDowell has
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
“A neighbourhood is not only an association of buildings but also a network of social relationships, an environment where the feelings and the sympathy can flourish.” -
Jane Jacobs
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 002: Community thrives through bustling neighbourhoods and casual chatter.
especially after the advent of electronic media, knowledge, place, and the public sphere begin to diverge. While local realities still loomed large epistemically and politically, there was a drift toward more abstract knowledge and more abstract communities (some might say “imagined communities”).
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
Robert D. Putnam.