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Digital Democracy, Meet Society

The history of the Internet over the past few decades has been defined by the explosion of social media that created seemingly un-limited ways for people to participate in the growing online dialogue. From commenting to blogging, from posting videos to social networking, from Twitter to TikTok, media pundits and scholars hailed the emergence of […]

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Come work with Me

Job Announcement: Half-Time Assistant for Digital Society Research Duties and Essential Job Functions: The Research Assistant (RA) will perform a variety of research duties and administrative tasks related to research on digital society and inequality by assisting a sociologist in the OSC at Sciences Po in Paris. Tasks to support the research may include (but […]

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Fall Book Tour for “The Revolution That Wasn’t”

I will be on the East Coast this fall to talk about my new book from Harvard University Press, The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. For details go to http://therevolutionthatwasnt.com/book-tour/ Join me! October 21 – Harvard October 22 – Northeastern October 23 – Tufts October 24 – UNC – Greensboro October 25 […]

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5 reasons why online Big Data is Bad Data for researching social movements

I know, I know, it’s digital blasphemy to say that using Internet data is a terrible way to study social movements. What about all of those Twitter and Facebook revolutions of the Arab Spring? And Occupy Wall Street? #Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter spread like wildfire, for God’s sake. You may think that I’m a luddite who […]

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