Noha Atef, the Egyptian blogger behind tortureinegypt.net is giving a talk at re:publica 11 on “Egyptian social media stories” to answer questions about how Egyptians have used social media and how, overnight it seems, Egyptians managed to mobilize on social networks to assist in the revolution. “The answer to the question: ‘Were Egyptians using social […]
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I’m in Berlin for re:publica 2011, a conference I’ve been wanting to go to for at least two years and which I was invited to speak at this year. When organizer Markus Beckedahl contacted me in January to speak, he was excited about my September 2010 paper, Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere. Just a […]
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Exporting Feminism to Muslims?
A few lines from Jonah Goldberg’s latest opinion piece in the LA Times: Feminism as a “movement” in America is largely played out. The work here is mostly done. Even the fight for “pay equity” is an argument about statistics, lagging cultural indicators and the actual choices liberated women make Countless Islamist countries practice gender […]