Kavada, Anastasia
CAMRI Post-Doctoral Researcher
Tel: +44 (0) 207 911 5000 ext. 5909
Email: kavadaa@wmin.ac.uk
Anastasia Kavada joined CAMRI as a post-doctoral researcher in September 2007. She obtained an MA in Communication with distinction from the University of Westminster and received her PhD from the same university with a thesis on the global social justice movement and its use of the internet. The thesis focused on the European Social Forum, one of the most important events organised by the movement in Europe, analysing the connection between the internet and participatory decision-making, decentralized organizing, and the development of solidarity and a sense of common identity among movement participants. The study employed a combination of methods including content analysis, in-depth interviews, surveys and participant observation.
Anastasia is currently developing research on the role of social technologies (such as blogs, social networking sites, picture and video sharing sites) in the establishment of international campaigns and political coalitions, in practices of citizenship and democracy, as well as in the formation of political identities and feelings of belonging to political groups.
Publications
(Forthcoming) Email lists and the construction of an open and multifaceted identity: The case of the London 2004 European Social Forum. Information, Communication and Society.
(2008) Decision-making online and offline: The case of the movement for alternative globalization in N. Carpentier, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, K. Nordenstreng, M. Hartmann, P. Vihalemm, B. Cammaerts, H. Nieminen and T. Olsson (eds.) (2008) Democracy, Journalism and Technology: New Developments in an Enlarged Europe: The Intellectual Work of the 2008 ECREA Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, Tartu: University of Tartu Press.
(2008) Decentralization and Communication: Email Lists and the Organizing Process of the European Social Forum in A. Karatzogianni (ed.) Cyber Conflict and Global Politics, London: Routledge.
(2005) Exploring the Role of the Internet in the Movement for Alternative Globalization: The case of the Paris 2003 European Social Forum in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol.2(1), pp.72-95.
(2005) Civil Society Organizations and the Internet: the Case Studies of Oxfam, Amnesty International and the World Development Movement in W. de Jong, M. Shaw and N. Stammers (eds) Global Activism, Global Media, London: Pluto Press, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 208-222.
Selected Conference Papers
(2007) Email lists as multiple sites of identity construction: the case of the 2004 European Social Forum. Paper presented at the Symposium Changing Politics through Digital Networks, 5-6 October 2007, Florence, Italy.
(2007) The Horizontals and the Verticals: Competing Communicative Logics in the 2004 European Social Forum. Paper presented at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), 6-8 September 2007, Pisa, Italy.
(2006) The alter-globalization movement and the Internet: A case study of communication networks and collective action. Paper presented at the Cortona Colloquium 2006: Cultural Conflicts, Social Movements and New Rights: A European Challenge, 20-22 October 2006, Cortona, Italy. Available at
(2003) Social Movements and Current Network Research. Paper presented at the workshop Contemporary Anti-War Mobilizations: Agonistic Engagement Within Social Movement Networks, 6-7 November 2003, Corfu, Greece.
Other activities
Member of the editorial board of Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) and Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture (Intellect, forthcoming, 2009).
