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Remko Berkhout and Fieke Jansen analyze the historic changes that have happened to citizen action during 2011. They do so through three entry points. First, they reflect on the assumption that we live in unprecedented times and explore the transformative nature of 2011. Second, they analyze the role played by social media and new technologies. Finally, they reflect on civic agency and ask how we can foster a better understanding and "reading" of power and agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jacquelien van Stekelenburg argues that the Occupy Movement can be seen as a product of our time. The movement shows how people are becoming increasingly connected as individuals rather than as members of a community or group. The Internet she suggests is instrumental in forging and sustaining these new ways of organizing as individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]