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Category Archives: Social Capital
New article published: Political Protest Italian Style
The article I co-authored with my colleague Alberto Pepe, from UCLA, has been published in the December Issue of First Monday: “Political protest Italian–style: The blogosphere and mainstream media in the promotion and coverage of Beppe Grillo’s V–day” First Monday, … Continue reading
has Internet use changed the number of friends you have?
A forthcoming study by Hua Wang (USC Annenberg School for Communication) and Barry Wellman (University of Toronto) “Social Connectivity in America” has looked at how social networks of friendship have been changing from 2002 and 2007 and how this is … Continue reading
Joe Green on Facebook Causes
Live blogging from the workshop “From Social Network to Social Movement” at Harvard Law School. Joe Green, Founder of Facebook Causes is presenting. You can also follow on Twitter: #HLSsocnetworks Facts on Facebook Causes: 50 million people using it, 250.000 … Continue reading
Ben Rattray on Change.org
Live blogging from the workshop “From Social Network to Social Movement” at Harvard Law School. Ben Rattray, Founder and CEO of Change.org is presenting. You can also follow on Twitter: #HLSsocnetworks Rise of the social web has been huge. Activism … Continue reading
Marshall Ganz on narratives and social movements
Live blogging from the workshop “From Social Network to Social Movement” at Harvard Law School. Marshall Ganz from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, presenting The role of narratives as leadership practice in social movements. You can also … Continue reading
David Lazer on the properties of network power
Live blogging from the workshop “From Social Network to Social Movement” at Harvard Law School. David Lazer from the Harvard Kennedy School is presenting on the properties of network power. You can also follow on Twitter: #HLSsocnetworks Definition of network: … Continue reading
the Internet and politics: analyzing the 2008 US election
A group of McCain and Obama campaigners, academics, activists, bloggers and journalists have gathered for two days at Harvard at a conference organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society examining the role that the Internet has played in … Continue reading
Posted in All, Digital Natives, Political Participation, Social Capital, US elections
Tagged democrats, elections, facebook, internet, mccain, obama, palin, politics, republicans, youtube
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How Facebook is changing Italian social and political life
[Cross-posted on Berkman’s Internet and Democracy blog] Two events have recently shaken Italian cyberspace: the launch of the Italian version of Facebook and the comments of Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after the election of President-elect Barack Obama. I believe … Continue reading
lessons in democracy from America
I just finished listening to the first press conference of President elect Barack Obama. While acknowledging the great challenges which are lying ahead of his adminstration, starting from the catastrophic state of the global economy, what President Obama (and boy … Continue reading
Posted in All, Political Participation, Social Capital
Tagged america, change, election2008, elezioni, elezioni2008, elezioniamericane, harvard, hope, italia, italy, obama, presidente, yeswecan
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