Zeynep Tufekci on Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes

Audio/video via http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2011/09/tufekci

Description

"What role did the new media ecology play in the ouster of long-standing dictators in Egypt and Tunisia as well as the continuing unrest across the region? In this talk Zeynep Tufekci — assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill at the School of Information and Library Science — examines how the new media ecology, composed of satellite TVs, social media and cell phones, upsets the erstwhile stable dynamics of repression under “durable authoritarianism.” Photo courtesy of Flickr user arselectronica

Produced 26 Sep 2011."