Starting this past August, NGO2.0 evolved from a project originally in MIT’s New Media Action Lab into a Shenzhen-based Chinese nonprofit organization, the TuOu Center for Nonprofit Tech Development.
Podcast and Liveblog: Zeynep Tufekci, “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
Zeynep Tufekci discusses features of boom and bust protest movements, drawing upon Gezi, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy and M15 movements.
Zeynep Tufekci: “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
UNC’s Zeynep Tufekci discusses social media-fueled protests and their boom and bust cycle, drawing on the Gezi protests, Arab Spring, Occupy, and others.
Hong Qu: “Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers”
September 19th, hear from Hong Qu on Keepr, a tool that makes sense of social media news bursts with natural language processing and network analysis.
NGO 2.0: An Interview with Jing Wang
“We found that teaching them how to use the tools is probably less important than teaching them how to position themselves, how to brand themselves.”
User-Generated Censorship: Manipulating the Maps Of Social Media
Chris Peterson’s thesis investigates user-generated censorship: intervention by which users strategically manipulate social media to suppress speech.
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate Communities”
How is digital technology generating counterpublics — categories of identity and belonging in opposition to established norms of personhood or community?