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20 Feb 11
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my dissertation analyzes how access to new information and communication technologies changes the balance of power between repressive regimes and popular resistance movements
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how repressive regimes in North Africa have recently used Facebook to further their own ends
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We’ve seen how Facebook was used in Tunisia, Egypt and the Sudan to schedule and organize the recent protests.
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sophistication and learning on the part of repressive regimes
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The Sudanese government reportedly set up a Facebook group calling for protests on a given date at a specific place. Thousands of activists promptly subscribed to this grou
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Bashir called on his supporters to use Facebook to push back against his opposition
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A number of activists have apparently switched from Facebook to Crabgrass
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Services like Foursquare provide a location-based mobile social networking platform that allows users to check-in at different venues to earn points and connect with friends.
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This quick check-in service has obvious applications for students coordinating nonviolent protests, especially when they need to rapidly adapt to a changing situation.
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Tania ShekoWhat is crisis mapping
mapping politics activism blog irevolution media information research patrick_meier crisis_mapping digital_activism early_warning technologies crisis
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Leroy HurtAn iRevolution is the individual’s revolution in self-sufficiency, self-determination and self-survival facilitated by information communication technology. iRevolutions take place when new technology or innovative applications empower the individual to m
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Howard RheingoldSeeing that I was in Nairobi during the election violence, I chose Kenya as a case study to assess the role of citizen journalists in crisis environments as compared to the mainstream media. My colleagues Kate Brodock, Briana Kramer and I used event-data
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Christian KreutzThe Information Revolution has brought us iPods, iPhones and iRevolutions. What are iRevolutions? They are what SmartMobs do. What do you get when activists engaged in nonviolent social resistance have access to increasingly decentralized, distributed and
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The Information Revolution has brought us iPods, iPhones and iRevolutions. What are iRevolutions? They are what SmartMobs do. What do you get when activists engaged in nonviolent social resistance have access to increasingly decentralized, distributed and mobile technologies? That’s right, an iRevolution. Just like iPods and iPhones have empowered their owners by providing them more autonomy and freedom thanks to the new buttons they can press, so too has the Information Revolution empowered local activists and transnational networks—albeit to circumvent state control and coercive censorship, i.e., by pressing their buttons.
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