Books - Articles and chapters in books - Other writing and commentary - Selected presentations

Books

Hands, J (2010) @ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture Pluto Press

Hands, J & Siapera, E (Eds.) (2004) At the Interface: Continuity and Transformation in Culture and Politics Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi

Articles and chapters in books

(2012) 'Does Twitter Think?' IPPR Journal, November, 2012

(2007) 'Between Agonistic and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical e-Democracy' in Radical Democracy and the Internet eds. Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera, Basingstoke: Palgrave

(2006) 'Civil Society, Cosmopolitics and the Net: The Legacy of 15 February 2003' Information, Communication and Society (9) 2 pp225-243

(2005) '9/11 and the Project of Modernity' Philosophy and Social Criticism Vol 31 No 3 pp 381-387

(2005) 'E-Deliberation and Local Governance: The Role of Computer Mediated Communication in Local Democratic Participation in the United Kingdom' First Monday Vol 10 No 7, July 2005, available online

(2004) 'Living With E-Utopia: Camus, Habermas and the Politics of Virtual Dissent' in At the Interface: Continuity and Transformation in Culture and Politics eds. Joss Hands & Eugenia Siapera, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi

Other writing and commentary

(2011) 'Social Media and the Mobilisation of the Masses', Open: Cahier on Art and the Public Domain, Number 21, May 2011, (Im)mobility: Exploring the Limits of Hypermobility

(2011) 'Digital Activism and the Anti-Cuts Agenda' Open Democracy, 24 March 2011

(2011) 'Twitter Revolution?' Pluto Press Blog, 25 Jan 2011

(2011) '10 Years of Wikipedia' The Fresh Outlook, 21 Jan, 2011

(2011) Introductory comments on '@ is For Activism' for the Peer-to-Peer Foundation

(2010) with Quinney, J 'Activism in a Digital Culture' Interview with the New Left Project, 21 Dec 2010

Selected Presentations

6-7 October 2012 'Materialism and Affordance: Between Cultural and New Materialism in Network
Politics' Rethinking Small Media Conference, SOAS

23 Feb 2012 'Social Media Activism and the Social Mind', Research Seminar, Department of Political and Public Communication, Université Paris-Est Créteil

1 Feb 2012 ' 'Twitter Consciousness' Collective Intelligence and Social Media Activism' Invited speaker, Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS. London

13 October 2011 'Does Twitter Think: Strange Loops, Collective Action and Social Media.' AoIR 12.0, annual conference, Seattle, WA 10-13 October 2011

21 June 2011 Interview on Resonance FM's 'Novara' programme with Aaron Peters on digital activism and the 30 June coordinated strike actions in the UK

23 May 2011 Panellist, 'Politics in the Age of Twitter' Portico Rooms, Somerset House 19.00 - 20.30. Panel discussion as part of a series of responses to Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads exhibition

16 March 2011, 'Activism in the Network Society: On Power-Laws and Deliberation in Radical Democracy' Invited speaker, Research Seminar Series, Research Institute for Media, Art, Design, Performance and English, University of Bedfordshire, A107 13.00-14.00

22 February 2011, 'New Directions in Media Studies: Questioning the Digital Turn' talk and book launch with Jussi Parikka (Insect Media). Anglia Ruskin University, Helmore 252, 17.00

29 April 2009, 'Protocol; Norm; Imperative: Networks as Moral Machines', 'The State of Things' Conference, University of Leicester 29 April - 1 May 2009

11 March 2009, 'Constructing the Common: The Politics of Co-operation in Digital Activism' Invited speaker at the Critical Cultures Research Seminar Series, Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham

April 2008 'Mobil(e)ising the Multitude: The Political Significance of Mobile Communications in Contemporary Protest and Resistance Movements' 'Politics: Web 2.0: An International Conference,' New Political Communication Unit, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 17-18, 2008

September 2006 'From the Public Sphere to the Communications Commons: Discourse and Multitude in the Network Society' CRESC Conference, 'Media Change and Social Theory' University of Oxford, UK, September 6-8 2006

November 2005 'Disciplining The Field - The Formation of Research Agendas in Internet Studies' First European Communication Conference '50 Years of Communication Research' Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 25-26 2005

January 2005 'Multitude: Some Notes Towards a Critique,' iCANN, 'Technology: A Symposium,' Nottingham Trent University

September 2004 'Civil Society, Cosmopolitics and the Web,' AoIR 5.0 annual conference, 'Ubiquity?' Sussex University, UK Sept 19-22 2004

July 2004 'February 15th, or, Who Says Europeans are So Special: Protest in The Age of the Network Society,' IAMCR conference, 'Communication and Democracy: Perspectives for a New World.' Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 25-30 2004

November 2003 'Subjects of e-Democracy: A Study in the Discourse and Practice of e-Deliberation,' IAMCR conference, 'Digital Dynamics,' Loughborough University, UK., Nov 6-9 2003

October 2003 'The Discourse of e-Deliberation: A Study in the Communicative Practice of Local e-Democracy in the UK' AOIR 4.0 annual conference 'Broadening the Band' Toronto, Canada, 16-19 Oct 2003

December 2002 'Living with E-Utopia: Camus, Habermas and the Politics of Virtual Dissent' 1st Global Conference: 'Transformations in Politics, Culture and Society,' Brussels, Belgium, 6-8 Dec 2002

June 2002 'Identity in the Matrix: The Internet on Film and the Intensification of the Bourgeois Subject' Cost European Action A20, Tromso University, Norway, 20-22 June 2002