I.  YOUTHMAP & Blogs/Twitter

• Youthmap pre-survey
• Finalize groups and discuss next steps
• Discuss blog posts and Tweets of the week

II. DIGITAL DEMOCRACY IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES

• Question: To what extent does digital technology enable the overthrow of authoritarian regimes?
• The story of a peculiar industry
  • From Serbia’s Otpor to Georgia’s Kmara youth to Ukraine’s Pora
  • Training, funding and the role of the West
• Ukraine
  • Mike McFaul writes: “the Orange Revolution may have been the first in history to be organized largely online.” Is he right?
  • What is self-censorship?
  • What was so effective about the opposition's hybrid citizen-professional media?
  • What is meant by the term Online Political Citizen (OPC)?
  • What impact did the ‘Egg’ Incident have?
  • Maidan’s real and online space
    • Can an online public square enable real change?
  • Can websites produce an activist organization?
  • Centralization vs decentralization?
  • Pora’s networked protest
  • What is "sousveillance"?

• The revolutions that weren’t
  • Belarus
  • Zimbabwe
  • China

• Global Democracy in an Age of cyberterattacks and "undemocratic protests"?
  • Estonia 2007; Kyrgyzstan 2007, 2008; Georgia-Russia 2008
  • France 2005; Budapest 2006; Greece 2008

III. SMART MOBS AND SCARY MOBS

• Question:  What is the effect of mobile phones on democracy in both established and emerging democracies?
• Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mob
  • self-structuring social organization through technology-mediated, intelligent emergent behavior”
  • Shirky: Find My Phone!
• Predatory violence
  • Uganda's Mabira Forest protest
  • Kenya's Rift Valley violence
  • Greece's anarchists
• Government response
  • Ethiopia turns off SMS
  • Kenya pleads with Safaricom's CEO and prosecutes violence promotion via SMS. 
• Civic Responses
  • Ushahidi

IV. FOR NEXT CLASS

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• Idenitfy five new bloggers and have each write a blog post one of the readings/videos assigned for next week. 
• Remember to Tweet!