blogochange

This is really a comment to Lizzie's last post, but posted up here for ease of formatting:

As for the first section, I don't think we can throw out blogging or techno-networking as low points for 'movements of change'. I think this absolutely holds true for the United States and other countries, but only because people are overall ambivalent about social change, or a digital revolution. '68, according to a lot of people, just didn't work out. So yes, I'd agree that blogging/techno-networking didn't emerge out of 'social or political movement', but I don't think there even IS a movement it could have attached to.

The situation is entirely different in other countries. Point in case: Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran.
Without Twitter and Blogging, especially with the infrastructural support of the West, this revolution either would not have happened or we wouldn't know about it (is there a difference?).

According to Clay Shirkey, "...this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media."

There are other examples, too, though. 'Web 2.0 Para Todos' started as a convention in Bolivia to introduce Web 2.0 to the masses, as a means for subversive news and communication. In Bolivia, like other countries in South America, state control of the media isn't associated with discontent and constitutional rights as it is in the West, but with a history of repression and violence.

Here's the Indy Article and a blog post.

And then there was the violence in Kenya last year, when the government shut down cell service because 'incisive' text messages were being blindly sent throughout the country (kudos to Prof. Kay Warren).

anyway.

I'm also interested in slash fiction and the implementation of deconstructionist/structuralist/whateverist theory... are there any websites or specific examples you could link us to?