Peter John speaking at ‘I Will if You Will, Too’: Conditional Commitment in Collective Action
Political Turbulence co-author Peter John will keynote at a research workshop co-organized by King's College London, City University London, and the University of Swansea on 3 June 2016. The workshop is entitled "'I Will if You Will, Too': Conditional Commitment in Collective Action", and further details are available in the call for papers (.docx) This one day workshop convenes academics, activists and political practitioners investigating the potential and consequences of new—social and technological—participatory designs. The main focus of the meeting will be on conditional commitment, a theoretical and practical solution to the perennial collective action problem that the attainment of [...]
Hay Festival 2016
Author Helen Margetts discussed Political Turbulence at the 2016 Hay Festival. As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from neighbourhood campaigns to global political movements. ...Full details
Helen Margetts in Conversation with Ethan Zuckerman
Helen Margetts will speak about the research behind Political Turbulence in conversation with Ethan Zuckerman at MIT on 3 May 2016. Further details are available at the event webpage on the MIT Media Center. How does the changing use of social media affect politics? In her recent book, Political Turbulence, Helen Margetts and colleagues Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri show how social media are now inextricably intertwined with the political behavior of ordinary citizens, and exert an unruly influence on the political world. As people go about their daily lives, they are invited to undertake "tiny acts" of [...]
Talk at Harvard University
Helen Margetts will speak about Political Turbulence at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University on 2 May 2016. Full details are available on CRCS's website. How does the changing use of social media affect politics? In a recent book - Political Turbulence, Princeton University Press, 2016 - Helen Margetts and colleagues Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri show how social media are now inextricably intertwined with the political behaviour of ordinary citizens, and exert an unruly influence on the political world. As people go about their daily lives, they are invited to undertake 'tiny [...]
Talk at CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Helen Margetts will speak about Political Turbulence on 26 April 2016 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge. The talk, entitled "Social Media and Political Turbulence," will be from 14:30 to 16:30 in Room SG2, CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge. Full details are available at the link below. The last few years have seen increasingly frenzied speculation about the role of social media in political mobilisation. In an important recent book Helen Margetts and her colleagues report on research drawing on large-scale data generated from the Internet and real-world events to show [...]