Translating the profound ways that grassroots activism, protest movements on the streets, both contribute and influence the development of political thought in societies globally is a complex task.

Collecting voices from social movements internationally Learning from the Ground Up, a collection edited by Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor, works to challenge traditional understandings of knowledge production, placing value and focus not on the often elite halls of academia but on the informal universities of the streets.

In a world being radically altered by new media technologies, should the university embrace those technologies, or resist them? This is the question Anya Kamenetz explores in her new book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. Her answer -- in this troubling, stylistically flat and haphazardly structured book -- is an emphatic yes for a wholehearted embrace.