LIFE AFTER PRIVACY Is the Internet a threat or a gift to democra. SM and revolutions. Journo sacked for controversial tweets. Twitter FR FreeSpeech/Homophoby? Internet access a Human Right. Internet to transform Gvt. Tech to help fight corruption. Internet activism. Twitter a freedom fighter? Radio Londres ici France Libre. Japan Tsunami Eartquake March 2011. New medias / journalism. Oslo Bombing. London Riots. Blogers free speech. James Murdoch claim referred to police. Wikileaks. Social Media and revolution. Online justice. YouTube blockage in Pakistan turned down net. Anonymous counter-attack. Digital Activism Research: Learning a Lot About a Little. Kony tweets: a gorgeous N of 1 (source: Gilad Lotan) We now know a tremendous amount about the Kony 2012 campaign and excellent analysis keeps rolling in: on the Ushahidi blog, Patrick Meier has posted a variety of responses from Ugandans and Ethan Zuckerman has posted a gorgeous visualization fromGilad Lotan of the first 5000 Kony tweets (see left).
At a panel at SXSW yesterday, I learned that Invisible Children plans to release their own data on the campaign. As a digital activism researcher this makes me happy, because we need more empirical qualitative and quantitative analysis of digital activism, and most of the analysis I have read is of this type: nuanced, data-driven, analytically sophisticated. At the same time, it is just one case. Egypt Revolution & Internatl. Impact. Study: 75 Percent Of The World’s Heads Of State Are Now On Twitter.
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