My upcoming talks this spring…
March 16 Panelist: The Reach of Online Education Conference: Learning Mode – Critical Issues in Online Education The Berkeley Center for New Media 3.30-5:00 pm...
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Is Marriage Equality Bourgeois? Separating a social movement from a social...
Designed by Andrei Boutyline, UC Berkeley Dept of Sociology Check out my latest post on the debate over people changing their Facebook profile to support the Supreme Court hearing on marriage...
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The Digital Activism Gap – where social class, social media and social...
Where's techno-waldo in this recent demonstration? The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report today on social media and politics. It’s no surprise to sociologists that their...
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7 Myths of the Digital Divide
Check out my guest blog post at Cyborgology on the 7 Myths of the Digital Divide. I have heard so often from pundits, colleagues and, well, the Internet, that either digital inequality doesn’t matter...
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Big Data is Too Small: How the Digital Divide Leaves People Out
In my post on PBS.org’s MediaShift, I contend that Big Data is Too Small. I will also be giving a talk on the topic at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting on August 13 in New York....
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Is Facebook a Human Right?
Hi Mark, I just read your Facebook post: “Is Connectivity a Human Right?” and I thought I’d share my perspective (and answer) with you. First off, you’ve discovered that not every individual in this...
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Big Data and the Survival of the Scientific Method
Graphic from Wired Magazine 06.23.08 by Marian Bantjes Five years ago, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, wrote a provocative article entitled, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge...
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From French Resistance to hashtag activism: How our obsession with the...
I’ve become obsessed with “Un village français.” No, it’s not an idyllic town in Provence. It’s a French television series set during World War II. The show follows the residents of one French town as...
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5 reasons why online Big Data is Bad Data for researching social movements
I know, I know, it’s digital blasphemy to say that using Internet data is a terrible way to study social movements. What about all of those Twitter and Facebook revolutions of the Arab Spring? And...
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Paris Spring Book Talks: “The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism...
Tuesday, May 21, 14h30-15h15, OECD Forum, moderated by Alessandro Bellantoni, Deputy Head of Division and Head of the Open Government Unit, Governance Directorate Friday, April 19, 15h-17h: Le...
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