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Name: Shin Haeng Lee Degree Program: Communication at University of Washington Research Interests: Factors shaping ICT diffusion in East Asia and its implications Special Skills/Life Experience: Korean...
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View ArticleThe Activism Knowledge Gap
Earlier this week I met Nathan Matias, who will be starting his PhD at the MIT Media Lab this fall. He pointed me to a great blog post he wrote
View ArticleMonday Morning Review
Every Monday I meet with coders on the Global Digital Activism Data Set project and we review a selection of the past weeks cases to ensure that we are interpreting
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Jason Rundell, a student in the Master of Communication in Digital Media Program here at the University of Washington has created a great video introducing the Digital Activism Research Project.
View ArticleBook Review: Digital Activism in Chile
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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...
View ArticleGDADS 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
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
View ArticleDARP Video Intro
Jason Rundell, a student in the Master of Communication in Digital Media Program here at the University of Washington has created a great video introducing the Digital Activism Research Project.
View ArticleBook 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...
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