Re:activism - International Conference on the Fate of Activism in the Digital Age

Organised by the CEU/CMCS, the Open Society Institute, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

The conference addressed what role social activism can play in the broad process in which emerging new media technologies transform existing structures of cultural, economic and political power. Participants discussed questions related to new social movements (anti-globalization, environmental activism, anti-corporate campaigns); traditional and new forms of community media (free radios, P2P networks, blogs, forums, etc); ICTs and local civil societies; the role of new media in fighting the waste of traditional non-Western knowledge; conflicts over the control of production and distribution of culture and information. Keynote speakers included Lawrence Lessig from Stanford University.

More information on the conference, including a presentation of the panels and the text of individual papers, is available on the website of the BME Media Study and Research Centre (MOKK).