Data / Original Data
on May 12, 2014 at 8:38 am ×
Here are the aggregated numbers for daily tweets of #sidibouzid at a critical moment during the Tunisian uprising of early 2011. This information is analyzed in the report Howard, Philip N., and Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Muzammil Hussain, Will Mari, and Marwa Mazaid. “Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of […]
Data / Original Data
on January 22, 2014 at 3:19 am ×
Here is the original event data set we built for (known) incidents when a government interfered with its information infrastructure for political reasons. Its now a few years out of date so in sharing it I hope others might be interested in keeping up this line of research. When do […]
In The News / Interviewed / Podcast, Radio, Audio
on December 12, 2013 at 9:11 am ×
Interviewed by Ross Reynolds for KUOW-NPR show The Record about digital activism and the recent project findings. Hear the full interview.
Policy Papers / Publications
on November 22, 2013 at 5:13 pm ×
In order to analyze the relationships between digital activism and non violent conflict, we investigated thousands of campaigns from around the world and assembled protest event data more comprehensive than any previously collected. We define a digital activism campaign as an organized public effort, making collective claim(s) on a target […]