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    Contested Technologies: The emergence of the digital liberties movement

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    Authors
    Croeser, Sky
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Croeser, Sky. 2012. Contested Technologies: The emergence of the digital liberties movement. First Monday. 17 (8).
    Source Title
    First Monday
    DOI
    10.5210/fm.v17i8.4162
    ISSN
    13960466
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    This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17858
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The digital liberties movement is an emerging social movement that draws together activism around online censorship and surveillance, free/libre and open source software, and intellectual property. This paper uses the social movement literature’s framework to build an understanding of the movement, expanding the dominant framework by including a focus on the networks which sustain the movement. While other communities and movements have addressed these issues in the past, activists within the digital liberties movement are beginning to build a sense of a collective identity and a master frame that ties together these issues. They are doing this in online spaces, including blogs, and through campaigns around landmark issues, which also help to build the network which the movement relies upon. The 2012 campaign against the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act has highlighted the movement’s strength, but will also, perhaps, raise challenges for digital liberties activists as they confront the tension between attempts to disavow politics and a profoundly political project.

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