Occupying Cyberspace: Indonesian Cyberactivists and Occupy Wall Street (MA Thesis)
As the Occupy Wall Street movement went global, activists in Indonesia adopted an Occupy discourse, in part, through creation of and participation in Facebook groups. These groups afforded opportunities for Indonesian Facebook users participating in local activism online to join a globalizing Occupy movement within a familiar online activism framework. Despite a history of colonial occupation, Indonesian cyberactivists embraced expanded meanings of the word occupy as they joined a global social movement and formed local Occupy networks. During two years of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork online and in Indonesia, this research explored what constitutes “occupation” for online participants in the Indonesian Occupy movement, and what it means for activists to “occupy” in (post)colonial Indonesia.Also includes:Appendixes: "A Brief History of Occupy and Online Activism" and "Theorizing an Anthropology of Cyberspace".Key words: Activism, anthropology of cyberspace; empire; engaged anthropology; indigeneity; (post)colonialism; social movements; technology; Indonesia.Please cite as:Oman-Reagan, Michael P. 2013. Occupying Cyberspace: Indonesian Cyberactivists and Occupy Wall Street. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York.