The political power of social media: Technology, the public sphere, and political change

By Clay Shirky. 2011

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A deep learning approach for detecting traffic accidents from social media data (2018, background): “…in recent traffic studies including activity pattern identification (Hasan and Ukkusuri, 2014), special traffic-related events (Ni et al., 2014; Shirky, 2011), traffic flow prediction (Cottrill et al., 2017; Lin et al., 2015; Ni et al., 2017), transport information management (Cottrill et al.,…”
A Blockchain Research Framework (2017, background): “In the case of social media, this complex and participatory environment has redirected control from companies to consumers and enhanced the users’ ability to undertake collective action (Shirky 2011).”
Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API (2018, background): “tion and triggering political and societal change [1, 2].”
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes About Democracy (2012, background): “…(ICTs), particularly Internet, in the democratization process, either promoting democratic transitions or strengthening young democracies, as has become a highly salient question for scholars and policy-makers alike in recent years (Groshek, 2009; Howard, 2009; Mozorov, 2011; Shirky, 2011).”
Does personal social media usage affect efficiency and well-being? (2015, methodology): “Social media have been tools used to organize political activism and coordinate revolution from the Philippines and Belarus to the 2011 activities in Tunisia and Egypt (McCafferty, 2011; Shirky, 2011).”
How Social Media Is Changing Conflict (2017, background): “Communication plays a central role for groups seeking to exchange information and expose wrongdoing by incumbents and mobilize and coordinate protests (Shirky 2011).”
Characterizing the 2016 Russian IRA influence campaign (2018, background): “…turnout Bond et al. (2012) or exposure to diverse political views Bakshy et al. (2015) contribute to the general praise of these platforms as a tool for promoting democracy and civic engagement Effing et al. (2011); Loader and Mercea (2011); Shirky (2011); Tufekci (2014); Tufekci and Wilson (2012).”
Smart Cities and Green Growth: Outsourcing Democratic and Environmental Resilience to the Global Technology Sector (2014, background): “…of redistribution of power has given rise to accounts which celebrate the potential of networked technologies, either as removing barriers for liberal trade (Anderson, 2006; Tapscott and Williams, 2006) or as a tool for creating public value or empowering people (Leadbeater, 2008; Shirky, 2011).”
Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation: The 2016 Russian Interference Twitter Campaign (2018, background): “Findings that focused on the positive effects of social media, such as increasing voter turnout [10] or exposure to diverse political views [7] contributed to the general praise of these platforms as a tool for promoting democracy and civic engagement [24], [38], [51], [54], [55].”