Very interesting PHD proposal coming up Monday at the iSchool on cyberprotests today.  We have a growing public space, the Internet where it is tough if not impossible to protest other peoples websites.  In meat space it is easy to protest outside a Walmart or the Deans Office, but how do you protest Amazon or an online degree program if all the physical locations are way from the eyes of the other consumers and students?  I how Volodymryr Lysenko has some interesting ideas:

Volodymyr Lysenko:

Political cyberprotest in the (semi-)authoritarian societies as an information system: development of the theoretical framework

Date: 5/17/2010 to 5/17/2010
Time: 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Mary Gates Hall 420

Abstract: The Internet-based ICTs can play significant role in the globally important protest activities. Unfortunately, there is no theoretically substantiated and practically tested coherent theoretical framework describing political cyberprotest under the (semi-)authoritarian regimes. In the dissertation I will develop and test such a framework.
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