![]() ![]() The 1963 March on Washington might have culminated in hundreds of thousands of people listening to Martin Luther King Jr. But, according to Tufekci, it's a mistake to judge modern protests using the same criteria we used to judge pre-internet protests. The power of the internet as a tool for protest is obvious: it gives people newfound abilities to quickly organize and scale. "The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest" is the book's subtitle. The result is a book that is both insightful and entertaining, and whose lessons are much broader than the book's central topic. ![]() Her book combines her own ethnographic research and her usual deft analysis, with the research of others and some big data analysis from social media outlets. As an observer, writer, and participant, Tufekci examines how modern protest movements have been changed by the internet-and what that means for protests going forward. Modern internet-fueled protest movements are the subjects of Twitter and Tear Gas. Her regular New York Times column on the social impacts of technology is a must-read. She has a dual appointment in both the School of Information Science and the Department of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. As a sociologist, programmer, and ethnographer, she studies how technology shapes society and drives social change. Tufekci is a rare interdisciplinary figure.
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