TED Talks

Zeynep Tufekci: Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win (2015x18)

Ημερομηνία προβολής: Φεβ 02, 2015

Today, a single email can launch a worldwide movement. But as sociologist Zeynep Tufekci suggests, even though online activism is easy to grow, it often doesn't last. Why? She compares modern movements — Gezi, Ukraine, Hong Kong — to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and uncovers a surprising benefit of organizing protest movements the way it happened before Twitter.