brite zeynep 2012
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My slides for talk at Brite 2012. http://www.briteconference.com/Brite12/agenda.aspxTRANSCRIPT
From Tehran to Tahrir: What Does Twitter
Have to Dowith Revolution?
Zeynep Tufekci
@techsoc
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?
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc
Right Questions:How is the public sphere transformed?
How is the infrastructure of connectivity altered?
Augmented world: when atoms and bits intergrate...
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc
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
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc
«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
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc
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 = ???
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc
Change is Here
Governments, too, are adaptingStill, expect more challenges to unaccountable power...
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc
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... )
