Thanks Yosem! Angela Oduor Lungati
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Yosem Companys <compa...@stanford.edu> wrote: > > Hi Angela, > > Seminar video should be posted online at > http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech/multimedia > <http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech/multimedia> shortly after the live > event. > > Best, > Yosem > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Angela Oduor Lungati > <angela.od...@gmail.com <mailto:angela.od...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hey Yosem! > > This looks pretty interesting and relevant for some folks within the Ushahidi > and iHub community. Will this be a webinar or is this a session that will be > recorded and uploaded online? > > Angela Oduor Lungati > ang...@ushahidi.com <mailto:ang...@ushahidi.com> > Ushahidi Inc <http://ushahidi.com/>. > > > >> On Jan 29, 2015, at 4:33 AM, Yosem Companys <compa...@stanford.edu >> <mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>> wrote: >> >> From: Kathleen Barcos <kbar...@stanford.edu <mailto:kbar...@stanford.edu>> >> Will the Revolution be Tweeted? >> >> Information & Communication Technology and Conflict >> >> >> Speaker >> Navid Hassanpour, >> Postdoctoral Research Associate, >> Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) >> >> >> Thursday, January 29, 2015 >> 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM >> School of Education >> Room 128 >> >> FSI Contact >> >> Kathleen Barcos >> <http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech/people/kathleen_barcos> >> kbar...@stanford.edu <mailto:kbar...@stanford.edu> >> Abstract >> Is communication technology conducive to collective violence? Recent studies >> have provided conflicting answers to the same question. While some see the >> introduction of cellular communication as a contributing factor to civil >> conflict in Africa (Pierskalla and Hollenbach APSR 2013), others ascribe an >> opposite effect to mobile communications in Iraq (Shapiro and Weidmann IO >> forthcoming). During the talk, I will further explore the logic behind "Why >> the revolution will not be tweeted", and argue that the answer lies in >> contagion processes of collective action at the periphery, not the >> hierarchical schemes of central coordination as was argued before. To >> provide evidence, I will draw on historical accounts of social revolutions, >> a GIS study of the Syrian Civil War, a convenience survey sample from the >> 2011 Egyptian Revolution, as well as network experiments of collective >> risk-taking in a controlled setting. >> >> Speaker Bio >> >> Navid Hassanpour <http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/nh6> >> (Ph.D.s in Political Science from Yale'14, and Electrical Engineering from >> Stanford'06) studies political contestation, in its contentious and >> electoral forms. Following an inquiry into collective and relational >> dimensions of contentious politics, currently he is working on a project >> that examines the history, emergence, and the dynamics of representative >> democracy outside the Western World. This year he is a Niehaus postdoctoral >> fellow at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of public and International >> Affairs. His work has appeared in Political Communication as well as IEEE >> Transactions on Information Theory. His book project, Leading from the >> Periphery, is under consideration at Cambridge University Press' Structural >> Analysis in the Social Sciences Series. >> >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of >> list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> <https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech>. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu <mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>. > > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > <https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech>. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu <mailto:compa...@stanford.edu>. > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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