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Scholarly papers
New Strategies for Early Response: Insights from Complexity Science
(21 February 2007) PATRICK MEIER (The Fletcher School, Patrick.Meier@Tufts.Edu, Tufts University)
Comparing Theories of Institutional Change
(16 June 2008) CHRISTOPHER KINGSTON (Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, cgkingston@amherst.edu)
GONZALO CABALLERO (University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain)
Newspapers
Student Protests Are Turning Into A Twitter Revolution In Moldova
(April 7, 2009) by Leena Rao
"Students in Moldova are using Twitter as a tool to mobilize opposition against a communist victory in Moldovian elections. According to reports, close to 10,000 protesters gathered at Moldova’s parliament in Chisinau, Moldova’s capital and were able to eventually break through police lines to storm into the building. From looking at the tweets on the subject, it appears that the demonstration turned into a violent coup attempt."
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Disrupts Sites
By MICHAEL WINES and ANDREW JACOBS
Published: June 2, 2009
BEIJING — China’s government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft’s live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens from any hint of Thursday’s 20th anniversary of the military crackdown that ended the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.
Handbooks
The Witness Video Hub A ground breaking participatory website where anyone, anywhere can upload human rights related media that can be used to create change.
Short Videos
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
Presentations
Internet Censorship: How Cute Cats Can Help
Ethan Zuckerman, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University (Nov 13, 2008 at Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP))
We explore a wide range of ways activists have used the read/write web to advocate online, evade internet censorship and build bridges between activist and apolitical web users.
MIT | Internet Technology in Local and Global Communities
Learning and International Development (Video courtesy of Prof. Richard C. Larson).
Documentaries
The Century Of The Self - By Adam Curtis (Part 1 of 4 )
A BBC Documentary
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis
A BBC Documentary
This is another brilliant Adam Curtis documentary originally produced for the BBC. It talks about the modern political realities, where the policies came from and the massive failures of those ideals and how they have ended up exactly where they did not want to be. This episode starts in the Cold War and shows the seeds that were sown to produce the modern political reality.
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