Symposium Magazine: When Does Digital Activism Pack a Punch?

We are starting to disseminate some of the findings from the USIP-supported Digital Activism Research Project.  One[...]

Topics Digital Activism

When Does Digital Activism Pack a Punch?

Symposium Magazine...

Topics Digital Activism Social Media Social Movements

Video: Interview About the Center for Data, Media and Society

...it a key node in the global network of scholars, journalists and public intellectuals working on[...]

Interview for the Project on Middle East Political Science

Topics Arab Spring

If Your Government Fails, Can You Create a New One With Your Phone?

...In Nairobi’s largest slum, a local initiative to digitally map the muddy streets, open sewers, and[...]

Topics Governance

Democracy’s First Wave? Book Talk at GWU

...Washington’s department of communication, and comparative international researcher at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement[...]

Topics Arab Spring

Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter

How regimes take control of official media channels and push activists onto the Internet.By Philip N.[...]

Topics Governance Social Media

Political Redlining and Issue Publics

...dossiers and profiles. Voting.com, for example, charged about $70 for two variables on 1,000 people, but[...]

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Book Launch at the National Democracy Institute

Thank you to the colleagues, students, journalists, policy professionals and interested members of the public who[...]

Topics Arab Spring Social Media

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Interview

Muzammil Hussain was interviewed by Heath Brown for the New Books in Political Science podcast....

Topics Arab Spring

Are There Countries Whose Situations Worsened with the Arrival of the Internet?

This post originally appeared on Freedom To Tinker, after @evgenymorozov tweeted that he would want help with a graph[...]

Topics Digital Divide Social Theory

Astroturf Grows Best in Election Season

...Astroturf movements must be fed a steady diet of data—not simply polling data, the rather blunt[...]

Debate flares on ‘Twitter revolutions,’ Arab Spring

Amid a fierce debate in academic circles, an upcoming book argues that social media and new[...]

Topics Arab Spring Social Media

TechPresident: Singapore Doesn’t Always Need Internet Censorship to Silence Critics

...country’s growing community of independent bloggers and citizen journalists. Through his research, Cherian George has long[...]

The New Cold War: Information Policy and Political Rift

Topics Governance

Huffington Post: The Dictator’s Dead Pool for 2013: Will China’s Investments Pay Off in Political Clout?

(This originally appeared as “The Dictator’s Dead Pool for 2013” on the Huffington Post.) The world[...]