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Paris Spring Book Talks: “The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives”

Paris Spring Book Talks: “The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives”

By on March 20, 2019 in Academia, Academic Publishing, Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Facebook, Journalism, Labor, My Talks, Silicon Valley, Social Movements, Sociology, Tea Party, The South, Twitter, Unions

Tuesday, May 21, 14h30-15h15, OECD Forum, moderated by Alessandro Bellantoni, Deputy Head of Division and Head of the Open Government Unit, Governance Directorate Friday, April 19, 15h-17h: Le séminaire d’analyse des Structures et des Processus Sociaux, Paris Sorbonne, Maison de la recherche 28 Rue Serpente 75006. Thursday, March 21,17h30-19h30: Le séminaire Etudier les cultures du […]

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Debate: The ‘gilets jaunes’ movement is not a Facebook revolution

By on January 17, 2019 in Big Data, Digital Activism, Facebook, Journalism, Social Movements

In less than a month, France’s gilets jaunes (yellow vests) have gone from being a celebrated example of Facebook’s ability to power a spontaneous revolution to a cautionary tale of how social networks can be manipulated by outsiders to provoke outrage and sow dissent. But in both of these extreme scenarios, the central actors lie […]

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An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Is Facebook a Human Right?

By on August 21, 2013 in Academia, Digital Divide, Facebook, Sociology

Hi Mark, I just read your Facebook post: “Is Connectivity a Human Right?” and I thought I’d share my perspective (and answer) with you. First off, you’ve discovered that not every individual in this world has Internet access. Welcome. I’m a doctoral candidate in sociology up the road from you at UC Berkeley. Yeah, that […]

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7 Myths of the Digital Divide

By on April 26, 2013 in Academia, Blogging, Digital Divide, Twitter

Check out my guest blog post at Cyborgology on the 7 Myths of the Digital Divide. I have heard so often from pundits, colleagues and, well, the Internet, that either digital inequality doesn’t matter or it’s over, so I decided to write this post based on the most common tropes that I hear (p.s. class […]

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