---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fuster, Mayo <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:20 AM Subject: [Commoning] Tuesday, November 22, 12:30 pm: The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics by Mayo Fuster Morell, Berkman Center Fellow To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]
Hello! I was suggested to send this info to this e-list in case it is of interest of people in the e-list, it refers to a webcast talk I am giving tomorrow November 22 at the Berkman center. I will make reference to Wikipedia and other digital commons organizational forms part of the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement and how it influenced (plus also presenting the organizational commonalities and difference) with the current wave of willingness to rebuild "society commons" of the Indignate movement in Spain. Further info below! Cheers! Mayo Berkman Luncheon Series The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics Mayo Fuster Morell, Berkman Center Fellow Tuesday, November 22, 12:30 pm (Boston Time Zone - 18:30 Spanish State time zone) Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/11/morell In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – there are emerging forms of social cooperation. In the Spanish case, we have seen some of the largest demonstrations since the country made its transition to democracy in the 70s with massive occupations of public squares, attempts to prevent parliaments’ functioning and citizen assemblies of thousands of people taking place in spring and autumn 2011. Large mobilizations are also taking place in other countries (such as Arab countries, Iceland, Greece, and more recently the United States). In the Spanish case, the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement played an important role in the rising and shaping of the mobilization. The campaign against "Sinde Law" (on restrictive Internet regulation) in December 2010 and its afterworld meta-political derivation into "Don't vote them" campaign (meaning do not vote for the parties which approved Sinde law) are considered a starting point and one of the trajectories that most contributed to the generation of the "Indignate"/15th of May mobilization cycle for a "True Democracy Now". Additionally, the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement has influenced the organizational logic of the "Indignate" mobilization (particularly in terms of new technologies usage for the collective achievement of common goals); however, in turn, the "Indignate" mobilization has also stressed a split between two sectors in the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement itself (the performative one focusing on building commons keeping a political ambivalence and the campaigning sector aiming to mobilize citizens and intervene in the institutional politics arena). In sum, Mayo Fuster Morell will first present the role of the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement in the genealogy of the "Indignate" Movement in Spanish State. Then, she will analyze the commonalities and differences between both emerging forms of social cooperation (contrasting "digital commons" initiatives such as Wikipedia and "society commons" initiatives such as Square Occupations) that together suggest a shift to a more active role of civic society in managing and producing public goods and services. However, this shift to a more active role of civic society is taking place at a time in which the State adopts more authoritarian modes and is controlled by private interests of an each time more concentrated market agents. The presentation will be based on the results of previous/ongoing qualitative and quantitative research on the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement and the "Indignate" Movement, and develop a political analysis. Webcast: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast Identica & Twitter: #occupyresearch IRC http://webchat.freenode.net/ Channel: #Berkman «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Fellow Berkman center for Internet and Society. Harvard University. Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting scholar. Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Member Research Committee. Wikimedia Foundation Ph.D European University Institute Visiting researcher (2008). School of information. University of California, Berkeley. 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