Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Benjamin Arditi: Insurgencies don’t have a plan – they are the plan: Political performatives and vanishing mediators in 2011

Keywords l insurgencies l programmes l politics l performatives l Arab Spring l Chile l Marshall McLuhan l Fredric Jameson

Floriana Bernardi: Open Fields. (Social) Networks, Revolutions and ‘New Real-life Cyborgs’

Keywords l postcolonialism l feminism l self-mass communication l cyber-Islam l affect l multitudes

Grant Bollmer: Demanding Connectivity: The Performance of ‘True’ Identity and the Politics of Social Media

Keywords: Social Media l Facebook l Blogging l Networks l Citizenship l Cyberculture l Transparency l Performance of Identity l ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’

Peter Lee-Wright: News values: an assessment of news priorities through a comparative analysis of Arab Spring anniversary coverage

Keywords: Democracy l Coverage l Resources l Editorial priorities l BBC l ITN l Sky l al-Jazeera

David Levin: The Cottage Cheese Boycott: The Conjunction between News Construction and Social Protest on Facebook

Keywords Protest l Social networks l News values l facebook l Deliberative democracy  l Representation, mythology l consumer behavior

Dakin McDonald: The Politics of Indecision: George Papandreou and the Futures of Democracy

Keywords: Democracy l Future(s) l Decision/indecision l Greek debt crisis l George Papandreou

E. San Juan, Jr.: Speculative Notes by a Subaltern Amateur in Cultural Studies

Keywords:        Culture   l   Imperialism   l   Ethnic   l   Hegemony   l   Racism   l   Democracy

Yan Wu: Micro-blogging as a Rapid Response News Service in Crisis Reporting: the 2011 Wenzhou Train Crash

Keywords:    Web 2.0 technologies l Sina Weibo l Crisis reporting l Wenzhou Train Crash