Book Review: Digital Activism in Chile
Chile in 2011 witnessed the biggest protests it has seen since its return of democracy in 1990. Hundreds of thousands of students marched weekly throughout the country, occupying schools and...
View ArticleSymposium Magazine: When Does Digital Activism Pack a Punch?
We are starting to disseminate some of the findings from the USIP-supported Digital Activism Research Project. One of the first pieces on the work is now up with Symposium Magazine: The past few...
View ArticleReport on Digital Activism and Non-Violent Conflict
In order to analyze the relationships between digital activism and non violent conflict, we investigated thousands of campaigns from around the world and assembled protest event data more comprehensive...
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GDADS Wins 2014 Prize in Public Interest Communication Research
The Digital Activism Research Project has been awarded a prize for its work in public interest communications. Awarded by the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications, the...
View ArticleThe Story of Euromaidan Ukrainian Uprising
The Euromaidan in Ukraine is an ongoing wave of protests started in late November 2013 to force the government of Viktor Yanukovych to sign an EU trade deal he had refused to sign. Yanukovych’s...
View ArticleHere’s What You Need to Know About #BringBackOurGirls Campaign
By Matthew Adeiza and Henna Lee Nigerians and sympathizers from around the world have been protesting the kidnapping of over 300 schoolchildren in the north of the could by the terrorist Boko Haram...
View ArticlePursuing Health in a World Ruled by Unreasonable Media Fitness Standards
By Lydia Yekalem and Stacie Larsen Editor’s note: Lydia and Stacie were undergraduate research assistants for the DARP this quarter, and one of the projects they did was this very perceptive paper on...
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Pax Technica: New Book Explores Impact of Internet of Things on Society
How will the Internet of things shape our life and future? Who are the “authoritarian” governments we should be concerned about? Can democracy survive the Internet of things? What can individual...
View ArticleA $1 Million Fight Against Hillary Clinton’s Online Trolls
Helped with a story on the Atlantic about Hillary Clinton’s response to online trolling. “A lot of digital campaign strategy is experimental and run for fear of losing,” Phil Howard, a professor at the...
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