September 16, 2011 by Rachel Silver Posted in Middle East and North Africa, Technology and Social Movements, Platforms and Human Rights, Protest, Civil Resistance Tactics, Research, Social Media, Facebook Activism, Twitter Activism, Sustaining Protest Movements | Share

Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics #USIPblogs

This morning we are following the livestream of Sifting Fact from Fiction: The Role of Social Media in Conflict an event put on by the United States Institute of Peace in partnership with TechChange, Georgetown University's Democracy & Society Blog, and Balatarin. 

The event accompanies the publishing of a paper, "Blogs and Bullets: Social Media in Contentious Politics" which examines the impact of social media on political movements. You can read the paper here: 

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