Freeing Software and Opening Space: Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Technology

Authors

Juris
Giuseppe Caruso

Abstract

The authors highlight how the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, has unexpected consequences for communications. They particularly explore what they refer to as the cultural politics of technology within the social forums through a comparative analysis of the political goals and struggles associated with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use within the global, European and the U.S. social forum processes.

DOI

101163/187219108X256235

Recommended Citation

Juris & Giuseppe Caruso. 2009. "Freeing Software and Opening Space: Social Forums and the Cultural Politics of Technology." Societies Without Borders 3 (1): 96-117.
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol3/iss1/8