Her book enabled social change activism in the internet age. First of all, professor, what do you do here at the university . Guest sociology and Public Policy where i teach and research about social movements particularly digital activism and the study of rape russian with private actors to try to control and constrain protest. Host lets start with a digital half. What is and econtact . Guest what katrina and i were trying to do in the book is highlight the way that people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social change as using Digital Media to turn people out to offline events to think about the kind of Online Support that happens for instance in the womens march. Thats one way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or Digital Media on activism but in the book we wanted to look at a different way people use the tools which is to try to actually engage in activism online so thinking about online petitions or we might think about
Digital activism and the study of repression which is how private actors try to control protests. Lets start with the digital half of this. What is a tactic that you write about in your book . The book we introduced is cowritten by Katrina Porter and i and what we were trying to do is really highlight the wide variety of ways in which people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social challenges using Digital Media to turn people out to offline events. Inc. About the support that happens for instance for the womens march. That is one popular way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or Digital Media on activism, but in the book katrina and i wanted to look at it a different way that people use tools which is to actually engage in activism online, so think about online petitions, online letterwriting campaigns or we might talk about something bar last contention will like a Service Attack where people use tens of thousands of compute
Try to control and constrain protests. Lets start with the digital half of this. What is in a tactic that you write about in your book . The book that you introduced was cowritten by katrina and i and what we were trying to do in my book was really highlight a wide variety of ways in which people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social change is being using Digital Media to turn people off to online events. If the Online Support that happened, for instance, for the womens march. Thats one popular way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or of Digital Media on activism. In the book, katrina and i really wanted to look at a different way that people use tools which is to try to engage in activism online. Think about online petitions, online letterwriting campaigns or we might talk about something far less conventional like a distributed Service Attack where people use tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of computers to mak
Mendocino county. Welcome to the 9. It is a busy wednesday afternoon or morning, i should say. I want to start with uber ceo. Yeah. Saying goodbye. There was a big web in the state of win in the state of georgia for the republicans. The giants had a win. Finally. Finally. Is it selfie day. Yes. I was never a fan but i have started taking them. Why would you want to take a picture. He is going to do it but he has to pull out the camera. There you go, sal. Today is one of those days where you see the micro climate in the bay area. Uhhuh. Theres a live picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. Thats kind of how i felt this morning when i had the windows open. Lucky enough to get the breeze through the house. I want to be on the left. Me too. On the right, expect more of those recordbreaking temperatures. Maybe not a record today but it will definitely be hot out in the east bay. Lets check in right now with Steve Paulson to no. Were going to were going to leigh. When it is this hot, everybody ha
Trained to believe in our nose and mouth but the water agency says it is safe to drinks. It couldnt come at a worse time. A lot of people have out of town family coming in from out of town for the holiday weekend. Do they know when it will be fixed . Reporter no timeline. They are saying they are putting in products at the Treatment Facility to get rid of the smell and the taste but right now, the only solution is the cooler temperatures. But yeah, no timeline, especially if they have a large pool in the backyard, folks are saying its smelling up the entire backyard. Oh, no. Thank you. A plane crash on a busy Southern California freeway but tonight we know no one was killed. Twin engine cessna slamming into the ground bursting into flames. You can see there it happened on the congested 405 in Orange County right at the foot of the runways for John Wayne Airport in santa ana. Reporter Christi Fajardo on the flights final seconds. Reporter witnesses on the 405 say they could tell the pla