CITP Luncheon Speaker Series - How Digital Connectivity Fuels a Boom-Bust Cycle for Social Movements: Adhocracy and Participatory Culture
One of the most puzzling aspects of new wave of digitally-fueled movements has been their boom-bust cycle. Digital technologies have empowered movements to coordinate, to puncture censorship and to publicize their own narrative. Global discontent runs high, and the number of protests globally has more than tripled, from Middle…