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Begin forwarded message: > From: Amar Ashar <[email protected]> > Date: July 25, 2013, 1:40:51 PM EDT > To: Berkman Friends <[email protected]> > Subject: [berkmanfriends] Social Mobilization and the Networked Public > Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate -- New Publication > > Dear All, > > We wanted to share with you an exciting new paper from the Media Cloud team > published on the Berkman website today: Social Mobilization and the Networked > Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate, authored by Yochai Benkler, Hal > Roberts, Rob Faris, Alicia Solow-Niederman, and Bruce Etling, looks at the > public debate over the proposed SOPA-PIPA legislation in the United States > that was designed to give prosecutors and copyright holders new tools to > pursue suspected online copyright violations. > > This novel, data-driven perspective on the dynamics of the networked public > sphere supports an optimistic view of the potential for networked democratic > participation, and offers a view of a vibrant, diverse, and decentralized > networked public sphere that exhibited broad participation, leveraged topical > expertise, and focused public sentiment to shape national public policy. > > More information can be found in the announcement below and on our > publication page: > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2013/social_mobilization_and_the_networked_public_sphere > (where we also include a link to interactive versions of the maps found in > the paper: > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloud/2013/mapping_sopa_pipa/#). > > We welcome you to share this research with friends, colleagues, and > others who may be interested (on twitter, feel free to RT > https://twitter.com/berkmancenter/status/360450760804278272). If you have any > questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to be in touch. > > Best, > -The Media Cloud team > > = = = > > Berkman publication page: > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2013/social_mobilization_and_the_networked_public_sphere > Interactive visualizations: > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloud/2013/mapping_sopa_pipa/# > > The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release > of a new publication from the Media Cloud project, Social Mobilization and > the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate, authored by Yochai > Benkler, Hal Roberts, Rob Faris, Alicia Solow-Niederman, and Bruce Etling. > In this paper, we use a new set of online research tools to develop a > detailed study of the public debate over proposed legislation in the United > States that was designed to give prosecutors and copyright holders new tools > to pursue suspected online copyright violations. Our study applies a > mixed-methods approach by combining text and link analysis with human coding > and informal interviews to map the evolution of the controversy over time and > to analyze the mobilization, roles, and interactions of various actors. > > This novel, data-driven perspective on the dynamics of the networked public > sphere supports an optimistic view of the potential for networked democratic > participation, and offers a view of a vibrant, diverse, and decentralized > networked public sphere that exhibited broad participation, leveraged topical > expertise, and focused public sentiment to shape national public policy. > > We also offer an interactive visualization that maps the evolution of the > public controversy by collecting time slices of thousands of sources, then > using link analysis to assess the progress of the debate over time. We used > the Media Cloud platform to depict media sources (“nodes”, which appear as > circles on the map with different colors denoting different media types). > This visualization tracks media sources and their linkages within discrete > time slices and allows users to zoom into the controversy to see which > entities are present in the debate during a given period as well as who is > linking to whom at any point in time. > > The authors wish to thank the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation > for their generous support of this research and of the development of the > Media Cloud platform. > > About Media Cloud > > Media Cloud, a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at > Harvard University and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, is an open source, > open data platform that allows researchers to answer complex quantitative and > qualitative questions about the content of online media. Using Media Cloud, > academic researchers, journalism critics, and interested citizens can examine > what media sources cover which stories, what language different media outlets > use in conjunction with different stories, and how stories spread from one > media outlet to another. We encourage interested readers to explore Media > Cloud. > ---------- > You are subscribed to the BerkmanFriends discussion list. > > Mailing list options: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/berkmanfriends > Mailing list members: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/review/berkmanfriends > > Reminder: emails sent through this list are considered on-record unless > otherwise noted. > >
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