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Recent news out of Malawi has focused on the President dissolving her cabinet in the wake of arrests of several officials on suspicion of stealing state funds. The “cashgate”…
Read MoreBack to Basics - 5 Simple Security Tips
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Last friday I was gatecrashing the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer-Aided Reporting conference up in Baltimore. Super cool…
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Social Media and Political Awareness Under Authoritarian Regimes
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How do people under authoritarian regimes become politically aware? Does social media influence political awareness? And does social media really help to undermine authoritarian regimes? These are the questions raised in an article in the British…
Read MorePitfalls in Tolerance: An Analysis of Twitter Data for Electoral Predictions
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As we all know, Twitter is…
Read MoreWhy China's Internet Outage is a Big Deal
Last week, many of China’s major websites were inaccessible for nearly 24 hours to Chinese internet users. Chinese users trying to reach a range of websites ending in .com were re-routed instead to an IP address owned by Dynamic…
Read MoreOnline Organizing Platforms
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Our last RootsCamp ‘13 round-up identified free tools to maximize voice, and to collect and analyze social and mobile data. Each tool was quite specific in…
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My New Year's Resolution Is Good Digital Hygiene. It Should Be Yours, Too.
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If the NSA revelations by Edward Snowden didn’t impress you and you think, “my country is small and has no desire to surveil me”, or you think, “but I don’t do anything wrong and have…
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