Dr. Pradeep Kumar Misra, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Allied Sciences of M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India, discusses the use and implications of the Internet and social media in Indian politics. Dr. Misra will be completing a research project about Internet policy in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh as part of CGCS’s Internet Policy Observatory.
//On April 10, 2013, CGCS presented a seminar with Dr. Pedram Partovi In this talk, Dr. Pedram Partovi will consider the place of rumor in recent Iranian history. In general, scholars have associated the work of rumor with pre-modern societies – before…
Read More// Coverage of the 2009 post-election crisis first drew Dr. Partovi’s attention to the operation of rumor and mass political action in Iran. Below, in a piece written during that crisis, he argues that interpersonal communication via mobile phones and…
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