Michael Dartnell - Insurgency Online: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/mrta.htm - discusses Peruvian Tupac Amaru's use of the WWW during 1997-98 hostage crisis at Japanese embassy in Lima. Global media activity by non-state actors is posited as a consequence of IT development. The single most important issue here is: what are the implications for traditional territory-based politics?

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Michael Dartnell - HTML (HyperText Markup Language) as Needlepoint (CTheory, Vol. 22, No. 3, Article 77, Nov. 10, 1999) - focuses on interpreting new media with an eye to pinpointing/cataloguing the cultural-historical resonances in contemporary IT.

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Michael Dartnell - "The Internet and International Politics" (transcript of talk for Breakfast on the Hill Seminar Series organized by the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada (HSSFC), Ottawa, April 4, 2000 - a discussion of the Internet, some issues associated with its appearance in existing political societies and my research on use of information technologies (IT) by opposition political movements around the world. The discussion raises interpretative issues that are critical for policy formulation and decision-making today. These issues make online social science research and electronic politics highly important for decision-makers, who need to know how to interpret the meaning and impact of IT.

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Michael Dartnell - "The Electronic Starry Plough: The Irish Republican Socialist Movement Online" - all social and political movements appeal for support and articulate messages in identitarian terms. These symbols define the lines of debate and establish boundaries. Although political boundaries have been largely territorial since the seventeenth century, the ways in which these political boundaries are expressed includes flags, parades and national symbols. This symbolic expression of politics also extends to non-state actors. The IRSM, a case of the latter, has introduced its symbolism into an electronic environment.

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Michael Dartnell - "Walls and Places: Political Murals in Belfast" - a mixed media (text and digitized photos) narrative on Belfast's Republican and Loyalist murals. The photos were taken in June 2000. The text centres on examining the symbols and imagery in the murals as constitutive elements of political identity and postcolonial fragmentation of the territorial state in Ireland.

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Michael Dartnell - "From Action directe to Pax Electronica: Context and Method in the Analysis of Anti-government Groups", paper presented at "Trajectories of Terrorist Violence in Europe" conference at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (Harvard University), March 10, 2001 - discussion focusing on the method and context for the examination of terrorist and extremist groups. The paper traces my research from Action directe to the Insurgency Online project. Through this trajectory, the transformation of political communication by contemporary technologies can be seen. In general, the discussion argues that today's political communication has been transnationalized and de-territorialized (that is, removed from the clear boundaries of one territorial unit). The long-term implications of this change might prove a far-reaching as the advent of the printing press and mass literacy.

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