Twitter and Tear Gas

Posted on 25 July 2017 by Zeynep Tufekci

A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet fueled social movements greatest strengths and frequent challenges 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 An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long term quests for change Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on the ground interviews with insightful analysis She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul s Gezi Park These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture and offer essential insights into the future of governance. Free Download eBook Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci – kino-fada.fr Perceptive and knowledgeable examination of the interaction between modern communications technology and mass protest Tufekci s analysis is bolstered by her analysis of technology s effects, as well as her personal experiences in observing mass movements and large scale protests.To start off Tufekci takes a relatively nuanced view of the relationship between mass communication and protest While social media makes it easier to organize large scale protests and gather large crowds quickly, the Perceptive and knowledgeable examination of the interaction between modern communications technology and mass protest Tufekci s analysis is bolstered by her analysis of technology s effects, as well as her personal experiences in observing mass movements and large scale protests.To start off Tufekci takes a relatively nuanced view of the relationship between mass communication and protest While social media makes it easier to organize large scale protests and gather large crowds quickly, they also impede the development of these organizations in that they have problems with signalling changes in tactics or negotiating with those in power Compare this, for example, to the 20th century American civil rights movement, where a march was the culmination of years of work, and or...This book is a must read for whomever even slightly interested in the idea of changing public sphere with collective action.Author starts with an in depth analysis of networked movements social movements using internet and social media as organizing tools and a medium to express dissent and explores their differences with pre internet era movements The evident advantage of networked movements is fast and easy organization on a large scale But with this power also comes the movements weaknes This book is a must read for whomever even slightly interested in the idea of changing public sphere with collective action.Author starts with an in depth analysis of networked movements social movements using internet and social media as organizing tools and a medium to express dissent and explores their differences with pre internet era movements The evident advantage of networked movements is fast and easy organization on a large scale But with this power also comes the movements weakness Because of bypassing pain staking process of organization, there are almost no widely accepted leadership and even no effective decision making system which results in tactical freeze after the initial stage of protests and makes any fruitful negotiations very hard to achieve Author also mentions that this ...This should be mandatory reading for everyone in order to better understand how Social Media is affecting our lives for better and for worse.I have the feeling that this is going to be one of those books that stays in my head for a long time.The author, Zeynep Tufekci, is a Turkish woman who has worked at the interface between academia, technology, and progressive movements for change for a few years now She is the sort of person whose opinions of the Zapatista protest movement was formed in part by her personal visit to the Zapatista region in 1997, whose knowledge of the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt is formed by going to Egypt I have the feeling that this is going to be one of those books that stays in my head for a long time.The author, Zeynep Tufekci, is a Turkish woman who has worked at the interface between academia, technology, and progressive movements for change for a few years now S...This is a must read for anyone lay person or academic interested in the increasing role the Internet and social media has played in recent protests around the globe Tufecki draws on her extensive first hand experience with movements that have used recent technologies from the Zapatistas through Occupy and recent events in the Middle East and the last US presidental election, looking at how today s networked platforms can be easily co opted by small groups to reach large audiences and th This is a must read for anyone lay person or academic interested in the increasing role the Internet and social media has played in recent protests around the globe Tufecki draws on her extensive first hand experience with movements that have used recent technologies from the Zapatistas through Occupy and recent events in the Middle East and the last US presidental election, looking at how today s networked platforms can be easily co opted by small groups to reach large audiences and the resulting successes and failures, contrasting the work with earlier movements such as the American civil rights movement of the 1960s Given her cultur...Zeynep Tufekci is the ideal author for this remarkable book Her personal experience on the ground, online and talking to activists is the crowning jewel of this insightful book.Tufekci is clearly a passionate activist and has been involved in the most important social movements of the past twenty years However I found the criticisms most endearing about this work Despite her obvious allegiances, Tufekci balances the strengths of digital technologies and inter connectivity with the often overl Zeynep Tufekci is the ideal author for this remarkable book Her personal experience on the ground, online and talking to activists is ...For the better part of a decade, we ve been watching protest movements arise around the world and wondering what role was played by Twitter, Facebook, and the like Did Facebook bring down the Egyptian government in 2011 How did the Tea Party movement in the United States elect sympathetic legislators while the Occupy Wall Street movement did not Did Chinese government censorship of online platforms thwart the democracy activists in Hong Kong in 2014 Was it their methods or the activists them For the better part of a decade, we ve been watching protest movements arise around the world and wondering what role was played by Twitter, Facebook, and the like Did Facebook bring down the Egyptian government in 2011 How did the Tea Party movement in the United States elect sympathetic legislators while the Occupy Wall Street movement did not Did Chinese government censorship of online platforms thwart the democracy activists in Hong Kong in 2014 Was it their methods or the activists themselves that succeeded in some cases and not in others In Twitter and Tear Gas The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist who has been studying and often participating in digitally networked movements since the late 90s, discusses the n...This is certainly an essential reader for the modern activist Everyone seems to have a theory about the effects of social media on society, spawning terms like slacktivism and prompting scathing critiques from just about everyone This book puts those armchair theories to the test in a way, taking a balanced look at the good, the bad, and the uncertain impacts of the Internet and social networking sites on social movements It combines narrative with academic discourse and theory to create a bo This is certainly an essential reader for the modern activist Everyone seems to have a theory about the effects of social media on society, spawning terms like slacktivism and prompting scathing critiques from just about everyone This book puts those armchair theories to the test in a way, taking a balanced look at the good, the bad, and the uncertain impacts of the Internet and social networking sites on social movements It combines narrative with ac...Basically I would recommend this book to everyone I know In a nutshell, it s about the relationship between collective social movements the digitally networked sphere aka the internet how the internet provides novel affordances to movements changes its inherent capabilities There s a chapter I particularly like about how the power goverments, industries, etc had also shifted their tactics to counter these movements, from plain censorship to creating confusion via information Basically I would recommend this book to everyone I know In a nutshell, it s about the relationship between collective social movements the digitally networ...My initial impression of this book, especially the first third or so, was that it was a good overview and intro to the landscape but that I wished it had a little bitdepth to its analysis The further along I got, though, and theI thought about it, theI m convinced that this is essential reading for anyone who works with and appreciates the power of information, be they activists, technologists, or journalists Tufekci is characteristically sharp while remaining totally accessi My initial impression of this book, especially the first third or so, was that it was a good overview and intro to the landscape but that I wished it had a little bitdepth to its analysis The further along I got, though, and theI thought about it, theI m convinced that this is essential reading for anyone who works with and appreciates the power of information, be they activists, technologists, or journalists Tufekci is characteristically sharp while remaining totally...

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25 July 2017

Zeynep Tufekci