Virtual worlds are online three-dimensional worlds that are often constructed to look much like the real world. As more people begin to use these virtual worlds, virtual communities are emerging enabling various social activities and social interactions to be conducted online. Based on a literature review of social movements, virtual communities and virtual worlds, this paper suggests a framewo...

This paper uses concepts from complexity theory to metaphorically frame an exploratory analysis of emergence within a social movement. In particular un-order, self-organisation and global local linkages are used to conceptually frame the social forum. The Sydney Social Forum (SSF) represents one of many emergent, self-organising units within the global social forum movement. Preliminary results...

Social media Web sites such as YouTube offer activists unique opportunities to reach out to new audiences through a variety of diverse appeals. Yet the rules of engagement on social media should depend on the structures, goals, and characteristics of the movements engaging in this outreach. To explore how differences in social movements translate into online activism, we employ a paired case st...

The world economy is undergoing a fundamental structural change driven by the globalization of business on the one hand and by the revolution in information and communication technology on the other. The New Economy is the superior economic structure that is expected to arise as an outcome of these two forces. The papers is this special issue attempt to assess the significance of the New Econom...

The Science Museum’s new Information Age gallery looks at the last 200 years of information and communication technologies, inviting visitors to take a long view on our ability to generate, share and store information. We focused the gallery on six technological ‘networks’ and chose transforming events – or moments in history – that show how people have created and shaped each new wave of socia...

one of the remarkable concerns of existing thinkers in the field of philosophy of religion is question of philosophical and epistemological approach to ideological movements. moreover, they explain their position toward reason and its epistemological value. the epistemological importance of this issue is because of its assumptions like: relation and situation of “narration and reason”, “revelat...

The separatist vision espoused by some State of Jefferson supporters is in no way a unique idea. Almost as long there has been United States have people who, feeling alienated from their host state governments, sought to break away into smaller, more self-regulating political territories. In fact, the current movement northern California and southern Oregon not even first proposed “Jefferson” n...