~~**fin**~~

i don't really want to sum up my experience or talk about how i've grown/ questioned/ challenged myself or anything like that.
i'll relate some other research to you that i've been doing instead, i think that will be more productive and interesting for all of us.
-there's this original content blog i want you all to be aware of called the jogging. it's run buy a team of insufferably smart kids who obviously study a whole lot of critical theory and get huge boners in the process.
http://thejogging.tumblr.com/
anyway, they're relevant to this course in that they have this project running at the moment called 'assembly' where they get all their digital followers/ peers to critique/ undermine/ sabotage an individual or institutions website by 'bandwidth squatting' (getting everyone to open a million tabs of the targetted website until it goes bust). the way they have contextualised this activity is as
"a detournement of digital visitation.", where "through their undesired mass presence, protesters are able to disrupt the informational function of the website they are intervening on"
its quite nifty, but also incredibly annoying.
-i read an interesting article in the new yorker yesterday about how digital/ online activism will never amount to have the same kind of impact of say the civil rights movement of the 1960s despite having millions of people 'like' their cause, or retweet a particular injustice, or donate one cent per post or whatever. the logic of the article was that in order for radical activism to be effective, it needs to rely on hierachical streamlined power structures with strong-tie connections between the members, rather than diffuse, horizonatally organized weak-tie networks online.
it was called 'why the revolution will not be tweeted'.
lolololololol
i haven't read that 'communites of sense' article yet. i might.