Networked Politics: Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks

Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks. It examines the role of social movements, progressive parties, political institutions and new "techno-political tools" in achieving transformative change. In this seminar reader the authors set out the principles upon which such transformations should be based, and the challenges that stand in the way of their realisation.

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1. Intro: Networked Politics in Berlin
2. Consolidations
   1. Principles and Challenges
      Where are we at? Ezequiel Adamovsky and Micha Brie review the principles so far
      Appendix: New participants and invitees to contribute their principles and challenges
   2. Case studies
      Summaries of main theses- issues/questions arising from four case studies
      commissioned after the Barcelona seminar
      Open software movement. Stefano Fabri
      The experience of Internet world governance. Vittorio Bertola
      Feminism and political organisation: the experience of the German Greens
      Preliminary report by Frieder OttoWolf
      Social movement trade unionism. Ant Ince
   3. Dictionary
      Intro. Marco Berlinguer
      Comment. Lawrence Cox
      Example. Global social movement. Donatella della Porta
3. The four lines of inquiry. New questions for research.
   1. Ownership and the Commons
      Intro: Joan Subirat.
      Papers by Bruno Amoroso and Arturo di Corinto
   2. Labour and the movements
      Intro: Marco Berlinguer
      Papers by Carlo Formenti and Peter Waterman
      Appeal for a Labour Network in the WSF
   3. The new web communities and political culture.
      Intro: Mayo Fuster
      Papers by Felix Stalder
      Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics. Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
   4. Democracy beyond representation
      Intro Hilary Wainwright
      Papers by Peter Maier, Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter, Christopher Spehr
4. Tuesday a.m brainstorm
   Emerging subjects of transformation – their existence, character and conditions of
   emergence
5. Biographies
   Menu of maximum reader
6. Further reading - Mobilising against the G8 by Ben Trott
7. Seminar programme

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