brite zeynep 2012

From Tehran to Tahrir: What Does Twitter

Have to Dowith Revolution?

Zeynep Tufekci

@techsoc

zeynep@unc.edu

www.technosociology.org

UNC-Chapel Hill & Berkman/Harvard

Breaking of the Autocratic Model

Wrong Questions:Was it Facebook or the People?Was it Online of Offline?

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Right Questions:How is the public sphere transformed?

How is the infrastructure of connectivity altered?

Augmented world: when atoms and bits intergrate...

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The «Public Sphere» Revolution

We are All Khaled Said

«Public» is a Meta ConceptIt’s not just about what you knowIt’s about what you know others know

... that you know... that they know ....

Overcoming pluralistic ignorance

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«Getting The News Out Revolution»

Death of Neda Agha-SultanJune, 2009, Tehran, Iran

Syria, last week...

«Battle of the Camel»Tahrir, Cairo, February 2011

(Photo by Patrick Baz / AFP)

«The Logistics Revolution»

@TahrirSupplies

A Syrian Dissident

Syncretic Problems

20th Century Problem – Kafkaesque Bureaucracy

21st Century Network on Twitter17th Century Solution: ... A Sheikh

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Sheikh?

Last Mile – Remains Crucial

It’s an Ecology–One with New Players

Tahrir, 2011It’s an Ecology

It’s not simple

Social Media = More ParticipationMore Participation = ???

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Change is Here

Governments, too, are adaptingStill, expect more challenges to unaccountable power...

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If you depend on unaccountable power, especially based on: Information monopoliesControl over focusers/filtersPluralistic ignoranceDivide and conquerSpeed advantage

... expect to be challenged

(They might be coming for you... )

Thank you. Questions/Comments?

zeynep@unc.edu @techsoc

www.technosociology.org