March | 2014 | Social Media and Global Change Content - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About Markus Schulz: Dr. Schulz’s research focuses on democratization, social movements, and new media from a transnational and comparative perspective. He has co-authored the six-volume book series Internet and Politics in Latin America, and co-edited the forthcoming monograph Values and Culture: The Social Shaping of the Future. Among his published articles are “Collective Action across Borders” (Sociological Perspectives), “The Values of Global Futures” (Current Sociology), and the “The Role of the Internet in Transnational Mobilization” (World Society Studies).

Topic: Transnational Mobilization and the Internet

How do new media impact social movements and collective action within countries and across borders? What lessons can be drawn from a close empirical examination of the role of different media interfaces in the pioneering case of the Zapatista uprising and the connections between the insurgent Mayan peasants in Chiapas and their allies in postindustrial metropoles around the globe?

The structure of the presentation:

Chip’s introduction
Schulz overview and global village
Web mobilization compared to other social uprisings
Collective action across borders
Internet and the Zapatista uprising
Activists motivation towards uprisings
Summary hypotheses

Chip’s introduction

Schulz overview and global village

Web mobilization compared to other social uprisings

Collective action across borders

Internet and the Zapatista uprising

Activists motivation towards uprisings

Summary hypotheses

Readings

Schulz, Markus S.: “The Role of the Internet in Transnational Mobilization: A Case Study of the Zapatista Movement, 1994-2005,” World Society Studies, Vol. 2007/I., pp. 129-156.

Further recommended background:

Schulz, Markus S.: “Collective Action Across Borders: Opportunity Structure, Network Capacity, and Communicative Praxis in the Age of Advanced Globalization,” Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 41, No. 3, 1998, pp. 587-616.

Schulz, Markus S.: “The Values of Global Futures,” Current Sociology, 2011, 59(2).

https://podcast.cites.illinois.edu/groups/lis592-final/weblog/b98a6/Ali_BousquetFinalSue_Searing_Interview.html

About Olena Zhylinkova: Dr. Zhylinkov is a member of the Faculty of Law at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her experience includes working as a judge clerk and senior consultant at the Court of Appeals of Kharkiv Region and as an associate at the Intellectual Property Law department of Konnov & Sozanovsky law firm (Kyiv, Ukraine). She is the author of 35 publications on contractual regulation in Intellectual Property Law, legal regulation of the Internet, Information and Media-Communications Law, licensing etc.

Topic of the class:

Legal awareness and regulation in the digital age: Intercultural understanding

In the light of Internet functioning modern society is represented by two majour groups – (1) Internet users and (2) holders of certain rights – copyrights, right for privacy, information rights etc. The main challenge of current lawmakers is to strike the balance between the interests of mentioned groups in order to benefit society and governments.

Social media legal regulation concerns a wide variety of relationships regarding intangible objects which makes it difficult yet necessary to find the official approaches to such a regulation minding the significance of Internet in everyday lives. Contemporary social dialogue on the role of governments in legal regulation of Internet echoes in modern legislative history and creates the new vision of the new society. Global characteristic of the Internet determines the intercultural features of legal regulation in this field. The course is aimed at defining the main arguments in the social dialogue on Internet regulation and their influence on the formation of social media in different countries.

Structure of the presentation