[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate: Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 19:55:15 UTC 2013


Samuel Klein, 26/07/2013 00:46:
> The Berkman Center just came out with a report on the public
> discussions surrounding the SOPA-PIPA actions; drawing on the Media
> Cloud work by Yochai Benkler and others.
>
> It provides context for the discussions on the English Wikipedia, and
> captures the differences between the grassroots and top-down decisions
> by different organizations and media channels who took part in the
> blackout.
>
> An interactive time-visual shows how the conversation was driven at
> different times by different communities:
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloud/2013/mapping_sopa_pipa/#

Interesting, even in the day of the blackout reddit was linked almost as 
much as Wikipedia.

Nemo



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