Wikileaks Aids the Antiwar Movement

Our Brains and Computer Use

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?hp

Contraining Network Size on Facebook

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/fashion/30FACEBOOK.html?hp

The Network of Blogs Criticizing the NSF

See this recent post by David Lazer on how one of his studies became the focus of on-line political criticism: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2009/11/network_picture_of_attacks_on.html

Backlash Against Facebook

Check out this recent New York Times article about some people’s frustration with Facebook: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?em

Blue State Digital

Blue State Digital is the consulting firm that grew out of the Howard Dean’s campaign for the presidency in 2004.  Among its other clients, it was employed by presidential candidate Barack Obama to design, manage, and integrate www.mybarackobama.com into the Obama for America campaign organization.  For a brief description of the work that they did on the Obama campaign, see: http://www.bluestatedigital.com/casestudies/client/obama_for_america_2008/

The Internet in the 2008 Election

Check out the proceedings of this recent conference on “YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle”, held at the University of Massaschusetts: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=jitpc2009,

A New Mode of Grassroots Organizing

In a new approach to grassroots organzing, Organizing for American (Obama’s post-campaign political organization) is encouraging citizens to “tweet” their Senators using Twitter.  See:  http://www.barackobama.com/twitter/tweetyoursenator/

Thanks to Matthew Newman of the University of Florida for this tip!

How Obama Became the Facebook President

Senator Obama used Facebook successfully during his campaign for President.  Here’s a short article about Chris Hughes, one of the Facebook founders who went to work for the Obama campaign: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html?scp=29&sq=%22social%20networks%22&st=cse

The Twitter Revolution

While popular media accounts are likely overstated, the recent uprising in Iran drew strength from the ability of protesters to organize using Twitter and other tools on the Internet.  For a recent article, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/world/middleeast/16media.html?_r=1&hp