The uni's burning via Internet. Observations on the changing nature of protest

The rapid expansion of the student protests across the German-speaking space was largely a result of Web 2.0 and the different networking possibilities it offers. Refuting derogatory references to a "facebook rebellion" as the tired expression of a '68 fixation and tackling the charge that the virtual sense of "being there" undermines active participation, Jana Herwig, Max Kossatz and Viola Mark examine what the student protests reveal about changing the face of political activism in the era of Web 2.0.