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Tag Archives: obama
Facebook, Tartaglia, e le minacce del Governo
Nicola Bruno mi ha intervistato ieri per il Manifesto per parlare di Facebook, la censura dei contenuti pubblicati su Internet, e gli eventi di attualita’ politica degli utlimi giorni – l’intervista e’ pubblicata sul Manifesto del 15/12/2009: «Facebook che istiga … Continue reading
Posted in All, Censorship and filtering, Internet in Italy, Political Participation, Social Media, Social Networking, The Internet and Society
Tagged corinnadigennaro, facebook, manifesto, massimotartaglia, nicolabruno, obama, politica, silvio berlusconi, silvioberlusconi, tartaglia, US elections
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The Internet and the 2008 US election: participation and/or fragmentation?
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just released a report on the role of the Internet in the 2008 US election, which analyses trends in how people consume political news & information and the ways they use the … Continue reading
Posted in All, Digital Natives, Political Participation, Social Networking, The Internet and Society, US elections
Tagged Digital Natives, election2008, internet, mccain, obama, pew, politics
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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
lessons in democracy from America – part 2
Yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government I attended the IOP Forum “War Stories: Inside Campaign 2008”, where David Axelrod (Chief Strategist, Obama Campaign) and David Plouffe (Campaign Manager, Obama Campaign) discussed with Rick Davis (Campaign Manager, McCain Campaign) and … Continue reading
Posted in All, Political Participation, US elections
Tagged campaign, election2008, elections, mccain, obama, palin, US elections
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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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