My slides for talk at Brite 2012. http://www.briteconference.com/Brite12/agenda.aspx

1. From Tehran to Tahrir:
What Does Twitter
Have to Do
with Revolution?
Zeynep Tufekci
@techsoc
zeynep@unc.edu
www.technosociology.org
UNC-Chapel Hill & Berkman/Harvard

2. Breaking of the Autocratic Model

3. Wrong Questions:
Was it Facebook or the People?
Was it Online of Offline?
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc

4. Right Questions:
How is the public sphere
transformed?
How is the infrastructure of
connectivity altered?
Augmented world: when atoms and
bits intergrate...
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc

5. The «Public Sphere» Revolution

6. We are All Khaled Said

7. «Public» is a Meta Concept
It’s not just about what you know
It’s about what you know others know
... that you know... that they know ....
Overcoming pluralistic ignorance
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc

8. «Getting The News Out Revolution»

9. Death of Neda Agha-Sultan
June, 2009, Tehran, Iran

10. Syria, last week...

11. «Battle of the Camel»
Tahrir, Cairo, February 2011

12. (Photo by Patrick Baz / AFP)

13. «The Logistics Revolution»

14. @TahrirSupplies

15. A Syrian Dissident

18. Syncretic Problems
20th Century Problem – Kafkaesque
Bureaucracy
21st Century Network on Twitter
17th Century Solution:
... A Sheikh
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc

19. Sheikh?

21. Last Mile – Remains Crucial

23. It’s an Ecology–One with New Players

24. Tahrir, 2011
It’s an Ecology

25. It’s not simple
Social Media = More Participation
More Participation = ???
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc

27. Change is Here
Governments, too, are adapting
Still, expect more challenges to
unaccountable power...
Zeynep Tufekci @techsoc

28. If you depend on unaccountable
power, especially based on:
Information monopolies
Control over focusers/filters
Pluralistic ignorance
Divide and conquer
Speed advantage
... expect to be challenged

29. (They might be coming for you... )

30. Thank you. Questions/Comments?
zeynep@unc.edu
@techsoc
www.technosociology.org