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Do independent and activist bloggers see themselves as journalists in the...
Bright Box is a charging station for iPhones and Androids at the PPL, a workspace at the DNC for independent bloggers From the IMC at the WTO to the PPL at the DNC Pundits claim that the Internet has...
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Justice Stories, Resistance Stories and Just Good Stories: Narrative and...
This Wednesday, I’ll be on a panel at UC Berkeley sponsored by American Cultures and facilitated by Victoria Robinson. As the theme is narrative and social justice, I’ll be talking about everything...
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How Occupy Influenced the Election – Beyond the Pepper Spraying Cop
Check out my latest post on a case study of how Occupy influenced the elections in California in Mobilizing Ideas, a social movement studies blog, which is part of The Center for the Study of Social...
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March 16 Panelist: The Reach of Online Education Conference: Learning Mode – Critical Issues in Online Education The Berkeley Center for New Media 3.30-5:00 pm...
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Is Marriage Equality Bourgeois? Separating a social movement from a social...
Designed by Andrei Boutyline, UC Berkeley Dept of Sociology Check out my latest post on the debate over people changing their Facebook profile to support the Supreme Court hearing on marriage...
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The Digital Activism Gap – where social class, social media and social...
Where's techno-waldo in this recent demonstration? The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report today on social media and politics. It’s no surprise to sociologists that their...
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7 Myths of the Digital Divide
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...
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Big Data is Too Small: How the Digital Divide Leaves People Out
In my post on PBS.org’s MediaShift, I contend that Big Data is Too Small. I will also be giving a talk on the topic at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting on August 13 in New York....
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Is Facebook a Human Right?
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...
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Big Data and the Survival of the Scientific Method
Graphic from Wired Magazine 06.23.08 by Marian Bantjes Five years ago, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, wrote a provocative article entitled, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes...
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HBO’s Silicon Valley: Where the Women Aren’t
HBO's new comedy "Silicon Valley" premiered April 2 at the Redwood City Fox Theater in Silicon Valley I had the opportunity to see the premiere of the new HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley in, well,...
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Is Moral Monday the Tortoise and Occupy the Hare?
If you haven’t heard of the Moral Monday Movement, stay tuned. One year ago, on April 29, 2013, 17 people, including ministers, academics and workers, were arrested in the North Carolina legislative...
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Is Facebook just another paperboy with bad aim?
“Facebook Is a Bigger Source for Political News than CNN, Fox” headlined a Mashable article last week. Oh, really? This provocative phrase kept showing up on my Twitter feed. The article was one of...
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Bringing the Organization Back In: Social Media and Social Movements
In the digital era of so-called Facebook revolutions or hashtag activism, many claim that participation in social movements is individualized and personalized, but building and sustaining a political...
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From French Resistance to hashtag activism: How our obsession with the...
I’ve become obsessed with “Un village français.” No, it’s not an idyllic town in Provence. It’s a French television series set during World War II. The show follows the residents of one French town as...
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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...
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Competing Twitter hashtags reflect divided response to Paris attacks
On Friday night, November 13, I had just left a movie theater near my home in Toulouse, France, when I received an e-mail from a friend asking me if I was OK. Curious, I went on Twitter and immediately...
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The false media focus on violence: If it bleeds it still leads
On Sunday, August 27, in downtown Berkeley, I witnessed thousands of protesters raising their voices against a planned white supremacist “Patriot Prayer” rally. In my decades as a documentary filmmaker...
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Debate: The ‘gilets jaunes’ movement is not a Facebook revolution
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...
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Paris Spring Book Talks: “The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism...
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...
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