Great turnout for Digital Activism #Now conference

Digital Activism #Now, the conference on Digital Culture, Information Politics and Global Protest Movements was recently held on 4 April 2014 at King's College London. It was organised by Dr Paolo Gerbaudo and Dr Tim Jordan lecturers in Culture, Media and Creative Industries and Digital Humanities and attracted a large audience for a day of discussion about the state and future of digital activism. 

Over 200 people participated in the one day event organised to discuss the transformation of digital activism at the time of social media. Internet activists, hackers, information freedom campaigners, new media artists convened to discuss how forms of campaigning, advocacy and conflict are changing as a consequence of the rise of social network sites, as Facebook and Twitter but also of forms of mass online surveillance as the ones revealed by Edward Snowden. Different panels explored different aspects of digital activism, from hacking to networking, from transparency and secrecy to emerging forms of digital propaganda. The keynotes delivered by Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania and Gabriella Coleman, McGill, focused respectively on the historicity of digital activism, and on the way in which hackers utilise information technology as a means of protest.
The conference saw an active participation from the wider public audience, with ample time left for Q&A, in order to allow a discussion on a number of issues at stake in the conference.

A number of conference resources are now available online:

Podcasts of the different panels http://www.digitalactivismnow.org/podcasts/

A photo gallery http://www.digitalactivismnow.org/photo-gallery/

Op-eds authored by the speakers http://www.digitalactivismnow.org/category/op-eds/