Visitors to Cairo are always struck by its traffic. Sitting in seemingly endless traffic jams is an important feature of trying to get around the city. Beyond its inadequate mass transit system, another significant problem is the city’s car culture…. Read More ›
A three-day conference to be held in Cairo, 6-8 March 2015 Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK Organized by Mona Baker, Yasmin El Rifae, and Mada Masr http://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Activists from various regions and countries connect with and influence one another through practices… Read More ›
Five years after the disaster at a nuclear power station in Fukushima in 2011 , information on radiation levels in the area continues to be scarce. Although there have been no confirmed cases of deaths or radation sickness caused by… Read More ›
Photo Konbit is a non-profit initiative intended to empower Haitians to take control of the representation of their country through photography. The word Konbit itself is a creole term meaning to come together to achieve a goal. Attendees at Photo… Read More ›
While not strictly about citizen media, as a follow up to last week’s post on cartoonists mocking the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, it felt important to highlight the arrest of Egyptian (professional) cartoonist Islam Gawish on the basis of… Read More ›
Featured Collectives, a photoblog established in 2015, brings together images of daily life in Myanmar. In recent years the country has begun to open, socially and politically, and is becoming better known by foreigners. The site is run by photographer… Read More ›
Don’t you know that you’re the light of my eyes or what? A series of images lampooning Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have gained widespread popularity on Egyptian social media. Produced by cartoonist Saffie Eddeen, the images represent the president’s… Read More ›
16 April 2015, @The Shed, Digital Innovation, MMU Organised by Adi Kuntsman, Farida Vis and Simon Faulkner Sponsored by Digital Innovation, Manchester Metropolitan University, and The Visual Social Media Lab, The University of Sheffield https://sites.google.com/site/selfiecitizenship/home The workshop brings together researchers… Read More ›
A website that has for years been a leading provider of crowd-sourced Chinese subtitles for foreign movies, television shows, and online learning has been suddenly shut down as part of what appears to be a government effort to “mute” rampant online… Read More ›
Prefiguration, or ‘prefigurative politics’, involves experimenting with ways of enacting the principles being advocated by an activist group in the here and now, rather than at some future point when the conditions for the ‘ideal society’ have already been created,… Read More ›
The International Conference on the Image is now accepting proposals for the sixth edition of the conference, to be held at the University of Berkeley in California, 29-30 October 2015. The 2015 conference will focus on addressing the Image through… Read More ›
Citizen Media at Manchester 