<nettime> Rome, Oct. 15th

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http://www.artisopensource.net/2011/10/16/versus-rome-october-15th-the-riots-on-social-networks/

Rome, Oct. 15th, 2011

This short video displays the activity on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) during the riots of October 15th which took place in Rome during the local instance of the 15th October initiative created in the planetary process started by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The peaks and contours you see represent the intensity of the communication and conversations that was taking place from the start of the protest (at 3pm local time) up until its approximate end (at 8pm local time).

The animation shows the geo-referenced intensity of messages for each 30 minute time slot from the beginning to the end of the protest.

It is time to invent new, innovative, creative forms of protest, fostering new forms of solidarity, collaboration, participation between people, and also to create tools, strategies and methodologies to bypass and overcome the tricks which power structures and the people and organizations which we want to fight against have learned to perform so well to dismantle and make disappear all the good parts of the critique coming from the peaceful protesters.

What we suggest is to create new forms of protest. Which do not look anything like these current ones.

These and other topics will be discussed at the Share Festival and at the FabLab Italia during the first week of November 2011, where we will present the “VersuS” project.

VersuS is a spin-off of the ConnectiCity project, and is intended to create tools that enable us to imagine, design and create new tools for the city.

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