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Beth Coleman announced as 2011-12 Berkman Fellow

Beth Coleman

Beth Coleman
Beth Coleman
Harvard University Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has announced its fellows for 2011-12, a list that includes CMS professor Beth Coleman.

Coleman’s research there this year will look at the impact of networked social media platforms on collective action. She plans to investigate qualitative and quantitative data on the developing role of the mobile Internet in regard to social and political movements.

In particular, Coleman says, she will focus on spheres of activism, where personal risk (bodily or otherwise) is the condition of participation.

Her forthcoming paper—Tweeting the Revolution—part of this research project, will be delivered at the Oxford Internet Institute in the fall.

Fellows this year also include other good friends of CMS, particularly through the Center for Future Civic Media, including Benjamin Mako Hill, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Intisar Rabb, and Zeynep Tufekci.
“Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows” via Berkman Center for Internet and Society

About Andrew Whitacre

Andrew directs the communications efforts for CMS/W and its research groups. A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University, with a minor in humanities, as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College.

His work includes drawing up and executing strategic communications plans, with projects including website design, social media management and training, press outreach, product launches, fundraising campaign support, and event promotions.