Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope
Scholars of social media spend a lot of time studying Twitter. Twitter’s not the largest social network in the world – Facebook has at least… Read More »Exploring the Chinese internet with WeiboScope
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
John Kelly, chief scientist of Morningside Analytics, makes pretty diagrams that feature multicolored dots. The pretty dots frequently tell complicated and subtle stories about the… Read More »John Kelly, Morningside Analytics on the fact checking ecosystem
Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media
This summer, Sasha, Lorrie and I started brainstorming the sorts of events we wanted to host at the Center for Civic Media this fall. The… Read More »Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media
The rebuttal tweet
There’s a great blogpost from Nancy Scola about the rise of Twitter hashtags as form of political discourse, specifically focusing on the #WeCantWait tag, which… Read More »The rebuttal tweet
Understanding #amina
On Monday, June 6th, a post appeared on the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” announcing that Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, the “girl” in… Read More »Understanding #amina
Who freed Eynulla Fatullayev? And what does his release mean for Twitter activism?
Azerbaijan is far from an easy place to be an independent journalist – the nation ranks 152nd in Reporters Without Borders 2010 survey on press… Read More »Who freed Eynulla Fatullayev? And what does his release mean for Twitter activism?