Twitter and tear gas the power and fragility of networked protest
To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. Tufekci explains the nuanced trajectories of modern protests-how they form, how they...
| Main Author: | Tufekci, Zeynep (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Making a movement
- A networked public
- Censorship and attention
- Leading the leaderless
- Movement cultures
- A protester's tools
- Technology and people
- Platforms and algorithms
- Names and connections
- After the protests
- Signaling power and signaling to power
- Governments strike back
- Epilogue: The uncertain climb.