Aina, Nina, Rozarina, Sorina and I put together this blog in six weeks. As reflected in the theme that brough us together – i.e. “New Media, Social Movements and Development” – Five4ThePeople is a blog of mostly amateurs exploring the link between new media, development and any types of activism …
Image above: Ketty Nivyabandi kneels down in exasperation during the 13 May 2015 women-only led protests. Photo by © Joseph Ndayisenga From leader of the first ever women-only street protests in Bujumbura, Burundi to Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, anglophone branch In my first blog post a few weeks ago, a …
What comes to mind when you think of a WhatsApp group? Yet another app for hanging out as family, school friends or perhaps for planning a surprise party on the occasion of yet another cousin’s 50th birthday? Has it occasionally felt as though the app had become a tool for advancing …
Let me begin with Blumer’s 1969 (quoted in Crossley 2002:3) definition of what social movements are: Social movements can be viewed as collective enterprises seeking to establish a new order of life. They have their inception in a condition of unrest, and derive their move power on one hand from …
