Interested in politics, technology, social movements and protest in the 21st century? This event is for you.
On Tuesday 29 November, the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney will be convening a free screening of ‘The Real Social Network’, a documentary film about the new generation of protest.
About the film:
Protest has changed. Between the first UK student protests in November 2010 and the global uprising in the spring of 2011, a new radicalism, fueled by modern technology, has hit the streets. Over 6 months of government cuts, a collective of filmmakers has had exclusive access to the backroom meetings of a group of London students as they hacked software, occupied universities and shut down banks. In the process, they've helped build the movement currently sending ripples across the globe. The Real Social Network captures the passion, the anger and the technology that has forever changed the game between those in power and us.
View the trailer here:www.realsocialnetworkfilm.com
The screening will take place from 5pm-7pm in the Quad History Room S223, Main Quadrangle at the University of Sydney.
Following the screening (75 mins), Dr. Peter Chen and Dr. Diarmuid Maguire will moderate an audience discussion on digital media and protest movements.
All welcome.
Please RSVP to this event here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/girsocialnet