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Welcome to onlinesocialjustice!

Emailing, video watching, voice chatting, file sharing, wiki using, blog reading, blog commenting, RSS managing, social networking, photo tagging, micro-blogging, instant messaging - in one day, in one hour more and more actors in business and government and the general public, can peform all of these activities of the hyped 'Web 2.0' environment. Separately, they are merely new tools of communication, but when taken all together, do they augur well for the integration and autonomy of societies?

Onlinesocialjustice.com is a response to social media convergence.

Our goal is to understand and promote a web-based 'social justice 2.0'

What could be the next generation - the 2.0 - of social justice online!  We don't presume to know yet, but we aim to study how the internet and related new media are changing social justice practices and concepts.  The internet and new media can be used as tools to acheive progress beyond the sphere of internet-related activity.  However, the distinctive insight shared by the contributors and audience of onlinesocialjustice is to see the internet in terms of human activities which are occupying numerous people everyday in real time, activities which are themselves more or less socially-just.  You might say we are on to a culture of social justice distinctive to the online environment, which we take as our primary task to document, analyse, and understand.

This website is meant to be the hub for the onlinesocialjustice project and is currently under construction - thanks so much for your patience and do get in touch if you have any questions!  All the best to you and enjoy the internet responsibly!