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Can NING 'Chat' be embedded in a WP Blog?
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:28 0 Comments 0 Likes
Michael Holloway @m_holloway
Just joined http://occupii.org
http://Occupyto.org needs a place where people can talk. Can NING 'Chat' be embedded in a WP Blog? #OWS #OccTO
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June 19, 2013 from 9pm to 10pm – Mumble Server 9-10pGMT+1
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Nature Isn't Silly
Posted by Barb Dwyer on May 16, 2013 at 2:30 2 Comments 0 Likes
Where to begin…first - I apologize for this being so LONG everyone knows I hate wordy drawn out blogs so ... karma? Who knows.
There’s a small retaining pond behind the college apartments. I go back there several times a day; it’s a good area that forces me to have a bit of a walk. …
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15th Official Toronto Marijuana March
Posted by TerryX on May 11, 2013 at 14:26 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Importance Of Reverse Phone Lookup.
Posted by Valentin Stokes on May 3, 2013 at 13:27 0 Comments 0 Likes
The first three digits of the phone number would also help them locate the owner of the phone number. The thing is that if they had just run a phone number lookup, they could have found each other! Before you get any ideas, let me tell you that these sites are perfectly legal and also offer their services free of cost. This happens to many different people all over the world and many of them don't know how they can identify these pranksters. It's extremely… Continue
We are supposed to be in this together!
Posted by Nette Mom on April 26, 2013 at 20:55 0 Comments 0 Likes
I was just endiing a campaign in Michigan against our Governor, and wondered what more was out there, what more can I do to help make my country the place I used to love, when I stumbled across a thing called Livestream, where people with the same purpose (supposedly) or like mindness could come together, chat, discuss, plan, and act and I was to say the least, excited. I started chatting and made so many friends and it was then I realized, that I had been wrapped up in my own small…
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Hey Christian,
Thanks for getting back.
After I posted my bounce comment I had the brilliant idea to go and Google your name --- and I saw that you are as you say above.
I'll go back in and complete the survey.
Michael Holloway
Toronto
Hello Michael,
I am a professor of social media research at Uppsala Univeråsity. I have been writing books about "Internet and Society" and am currently writing one about social media. The results of this study will be published as a research report. The questions about social media use are intended to find out if social media play any role or if it is more interpersonal communication (face to face) that matters. There is a lot of research going on about social media use in protests, but the actual role of social media has not been clarified. You can also read more about why I think that social media research matters for Occupy here:
http://occupynewsnetwork.co.uk/why-social-media-research-matters-for-occupy/
I also recommend that you have a look at some of my articles etc so that you see what kind of work I am doing and what I am writing about:
http://fuchs.uti.at
You are not the first one to raise the fear that this survey is conducted by the police in order to monitor activists. But it definitely isn't, no need for a conspiracy assumption, but I fully understand that activists have such doubts and fears, given police violence at protests, etc. We are conducting this survey only for academic purposes (the interest in studying social media), there is no funding behind it, except for the work time at university, I hope having a look at the kind of work I am doing can assure you of that. If you have more questions, then please simply contact me.
Best,
Christian Fuchs
To Christian Fuchs
An open response to the request to fill out the SurveyMonkey survey about Occupy: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WG7JRG2
I spent about 1/2 an hour and was half way through when I bounced.
I left this comment for Christian directly - and also here for everyone to read.
Too long. Too many specific questions about this application in this specific place. I bounced. I flet like I may be setting myself up with a conspiracy to break the law charge.
What possible use would all that specific data about which social tools we used, be? Other than a stupid cop organization that doesn't know anything about the social networking - or a marketing research company.
Lastly, you identify yourself as, "a group of researchers in Sweden". Please indicate who you work for.
New web address for OccupyToronto - www.otga.ca
(otga - Occupy Toronto General Assembly)
Me writing there: http://otga.ca/members/michael_holloway/
Hello Michael.
What is the role of social media like Occupii, Facebook and Twitter in occupations and protests? We are a group of researchers in Sweden who is keen to find out and therefore conduct a survey among activists. We invite some users of Occupii to participate in it, and were therefore happy if you could take 15 minutes time in order to help us find out what role social media play in contemporary protests:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WG7JRG2
If you have any more questions about the survey, please contact us. If you do not find time to participate or find such surveys not interesting or annoying, then please simply ignore our request and excuse any inconvenience. Thanks a lot.
Hi 15M,
Plugging away here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (http://occupyto.org/members/michael_holloway/).
Mass of population not hurting so much that they are hitting the streets (Quebec is a different stroy mass movement there - watch: August 13-17). Could change in English Canada with one austerity measure, people are between low wages high debt and *some* inflation.
First Federal austerity budget implementing now.
How is Madrid?
as is everything there?
Hello! =)