We create and share knowledge in a way that helps others do so as well. (Image: co-founder Philip N. Howard listens to an Egyptian activist tell her story)
We collaborate across instituions and bring our findings out into the world. (Image: co-founder Mary Joyce presents at an open government event in Chile)
Global movements are increasingly digital, yet the effects and even the mechanisms of this technologies integration are little understood. We aim to shed light on those questions.
We produce free and high quality comparative data on the global phenomenon of digital activism. (Image: infographics from the Global Digital Activism Data Set)
The second versin of the Global Digital Activism Data Set seeks to study digital persuasion campaigns around the world. This post describes our method of developing an inclusion criterion and...
TL;DR Version: Use percent agreement, Scott’s pi, and Krippendorff’s alpha for studies using two coders. Use percent agreement, Fleiss’ kappa, and Krippendorff’s alpha for studies using three or more coders....
Research on the link between Internet penetration and democracy by DARP co-founder Philip N. Howard was recently featured on top tech blog Boing Boing. The post relates how Prof. Howard’s...
Mary Joyce, the co-founder of the Digital Activism Research Fellowship, has received a generous three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Today we are proud to announce the release of version 1.0 of the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS), a collection of digital activism cases from around the world, created as an...
Project co-founder Mary Joyce was recently interviewed by The Society Pages, an online, multidisciplinary social science project which aims to bring strong social science to broader public visibility and influence....
We study the public sphere so we must share our findings with the public sphere. Research on activism that stays within the academy would contradict the spirit of that...
The first thousand cases have been cataloged and coded. We don’t have the “universe” of cases yet, and most of the cases in this sample date from before 2011. But here are...
Title: Civil Resistance 2.0: Digital Enhancements to the 198 Nonviolent Methods Type: free webinar (register here) Date: Thursday, November 29th Time: 12:00-1:00pm EST Host:...
How do we ensure that the interests of citizens are respected in the architecture of the internet? The Declaration of Internet Freedom campaign aims to convince governments to protect the internet’s...