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David Weinberger on Fame Culture We...

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Last Friday I went to ROFLCon, the “rolling on the floor laughing” convention. It was a two-day event organized by an enterprising group of Harvard undergrads (and sponsored by the Berkman Center) to celebrate and explore internet memes and culture. Why is this an appropriate topic for blog on digital activism, you might ask. Although the conference was ostensibly about funny Internet memes it was really about how Internet is fueling the growth of user-generated culture - cultural democracy, if (Leer más)
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A Network Map of the Iranian Blogosphere

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Network Map of the Iranian Blogosphere: click the image to see a bigger version. In addition to my master's program and DigiActive, I am also a research assistant for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For much of this year, John Kelly of Morningside Analytics and Columbia University, and his team, has been studying the Iranian blogosphere for the Internet and Democracy Project. He's used both a network analytics (Leer más)
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Live-Blogging: Larry Lessig Wants to...

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Larry Lessig, Stanford intellectual extraordinaire and founder of Creative Commons, is here at Harvard Law School to talk about his new campaign Change Congress as part of the Berkman@10 lecture series.He begins with a quote from Ronald Reagan: "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most (Leer más)
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OhmyNews Journalism School Doubles as...

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The Dutch innovation organization Springwise reports that Korean citizen journalism site OhmyNews is opening a school for citizen journalists. The program will take place in a renovated elementary school located 90 minutes from Seoul. The school is deliberately designed as a retreat, to "give urbanites a rare opportunity to recharge themselves as content creators in the middle of idyllic rural setting". classroom at the school The purpose of the program is to disseminate the skills of journalism more widely among (Leer más)
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Back from Istanbul

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This is how Istanbul looked last week - cold and overcast.On Sunday I got back from 4 days in Istanbul for "Digitally-Empowered Acitivists," a conference I co-organized for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. We had a great group of activists and academics from around the world. You can read the agenda here and read a blog post about the event here on the I&D Blog.I was pretty busy with event logistics (not enough wireless internet connections, room only (Leer más)
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My Digital Activism Biography

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In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, a firm which looks at how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in campaigns for social change, particularly in developing countries. I have researched and written reports on topics ranging from online citizen journalism to blog advocacy and internet censorship. I have also performed in-country Internet monitoring and international conference organizing. I first became interested in digital activism in 2004-2005 while living in Morocco. It was the fall after (Leer más)
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The Citizen Journalism Web Site...

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I wrote this report for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The paper investigates the influence of the citizen journalism Web site OhmyNews during the 2002 South Korean Presidential election. It begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of citizen journalism and the importance of an independent media to democracy. It next moves to a discussion of the motivation for the creation of OhmyNews by Oh Yeon Ho and (Leer más)
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An Internet & Democracy Framework:...

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One of our tasks at the Internet and Democracy Project is to develop an intellectual framework which will aid us in studying the effect of the Internet on democracy. We are beginning by doing a lot of background research on the scholarship of democracy: Juan Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset, Terry Lynn Karl, Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Dahl, Larry Diamond. This has been very useful in placing our own research within the context of previous democracy research. Our next step is to (Leer más)
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Getting Empirical: How to Study the...

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Today I attended the Berkman Center luncheon presentation by Victoria Stodden of Stanford University on “The Internet and Democracy: Problems and Ideas.” (The event was webcast live.) Her talk inspired an animated discussion of what empirical methods are most appropriate for studying the Internet's effect on the democracy. Victoria said that the Internet could potentially affect democracy in three way: 1. by disseminating information (increase in accessibility of information, increased accountability, more informed citizens) 2. as a tool for democratic (Leer más)
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This is why I came to Harvard

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Yochai Benkler and his book, The Wealth of Networks Yesterday I met with Yochai Benkler, Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where I work as a research assistant. What a spectacular and inspiring meeting! Prof. Benkler is one of the top intellectuals thinking about the effect of the Internet on society. He literally wrote the book on the topic (The Wealth of Networks, pictured above). My fellow RA, Josh Goldstein, set up the meeting to learn more (Leer más)