Digital Resistance and the Orange Revolution
My colleague Joshua Goldstein recently researched the role of digital networked technologies in the Ukranian Orange Revolution (PDF). There are few case studies out there that address both digital...
View ArticleDigital Democracy in Burma
My colleagues Emily Jacobi and Mark Belinsky from Digital Democracy gave an excellent guest lecture yesterday. They presented their findings from their Burma project to undergraduate students in my...
View ArticleProject Cybersyn: Chile 2.0 in 1973
My colleague Lokman Tsui at the Berkman Center kindly added me to the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars working group and I attended the second roundtable of the year yesterday. These roundtables...
View ArticleNation-State Routing: Globalizing Censorship
I just found an interesting piece on Internet censorship at arXiv, my favorite go-to place for scientific papers that are pre-publication. Entitled “Nation-State Routing: Censorship, Wiretapping and...
View ArticleContent for Digital Activism and Civil Resistance
I’ve been advising a large scale digital activism and civil resistance project and am concerned by the lack of importance placed on content. The project’s donor (not implementer) literally thinks that...
View ArticleTransitions 2.0: Internet, Political Culture and Autocracy in Central Asia
I recently presented my dissertation research at the American Political Science Association (APSA) convention and attended a related panel entitled: “Internet: Collective Action, Social Mobilization,...
View ArticleConnectedness Unnecessary for Successful Mobilization
The latest issue of the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) includes an insightful study entitled “Don’t Forget to Vote: Text Message Reminders as a Mobilization Tool.” Co-authored by Allison...
View ArticleFacebook Fosters Political Engagement
I recently presented my dissertation research at the American Political Science Association (APSA) convention and attended a related panel entitled: “Internet: Collective Action, Social Mobilization,...
View ArticleTwitter vs. Tyrants: Summary of Congressional Briefing
My colleague Chris Doten sent me the following email on September 25th: Hey Patrick- I’m currently working for the US Helsinki Commission, which as you probably know is a semi-congressional human...
View ArticleEmpirical Study on Impact of Global ICT Use on Democratic Tendency
Important: The econometric analysis of this paper has received serious criticisms. My contribution to the paper was threefold: (1) the literature review, (2) the recommendation that autocratic regimes...
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