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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>May be of interest –
forwarded from the Cyber-society-live mailing list.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Steve</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The Resistance Studies
Network:</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Blogg: <a
href="www.resistancestudies.org">www.resistancestudies.org</a></span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Abstract: Understanding
"Digital Resistance" (ESA Conference 3-6 Sept</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> 2007)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Our paper explore the state
of a specific method of resistance: ICT=20 based collective resistance
("digital resistance") and in particular=20 the maturity and
description of digital resistance. Of particular=20 interest to this study is
the role of technological infrastructure in=20 forming the content and form of
acts of resistance.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> While resistance is
distinctive as a challenge which might undermine=20 power, it is manifold and
continually invented and one of its forms=20 are, we propose, digital.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Even though Internet is a
new political arena the development of=20 movement activity has been fast and
impressive. Some interpret this as=20 a danger ("cyperterrorism"),
others as a promise of a new democratic=20 and interactive future.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> There is a need for
empirically based analysis enabling us to=20 understand the heterogenous
expressions of the "digitalisation" of=20 oppositional politics.
Some use digital communication as simply a=20 faster and more efficient
method, others, with great ICT knowledge,=20 act more skilled than security
firms or anti-terrorist agencies. The=20 variation is enormous but the
existing empirical knowledge is still=20 shallow.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Our analysis develops a
typology which describes forms of resistance,=20 enemies, goals and
technological strategy among groups. And finally we=20 discuss the added
possibilities and limititations with digital=20 resistance.</span></font></p>
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text-align:left;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Mathias Klang, Mona Lilja
and Stellan Vinthagen</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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