To add to the post above, you might find the Electronic Disturbance Theater’s work with the Zapatista community interesting for your research.
Here are a few resources to look at:
Electronic Disturbance Theater
The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is a small group of cyber activists and artists (Ricardo Dominguez, Carmin Karasic, Brett Stalbaum, and Stefan Wray) engaged in developing the theory and practice of Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD). Until now the group has focused its electronic actions against the Mexican and U.S. governments to draw attention to the war being waged against the Zapatistas and others in Mexico. But ECD tactics have potential application by a range of political and artistic movements. The Electronic Disturbance Theater, working at the intersections of radical politics, recombinant and performance art, and computer software design, has produced an ECD device called Flood Net, URL based software used to flood and block an opponents web site. While at present a catalyst for moving forward with ECD tactics, the Electronic Disturbance Theater hopes to eventually blend into the background to become one of many small autonomous groups heightening and enhancing the ways and means of computerized resistance.
Additional Links:
Chronology of SWARM
EDT/ECD Virtual Sit-Ins
Electronic Disturbance Theater
On Electronic Civil Disobedience
The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience
Digital Zapatismo
