[Ict4d] Maria Garrido visit on Thurs from University of Washington School of Information

[Melissa Densmore]

Hi all,

Please try to attend this ICT4D-themed Colloquium.  Also Maria will be
around for a couple of days, so let me know if you are interested in having
a 1-on-1 or group meeting with her!  She'll be joining us for ICTDEVers and
the Masi trip also!

More on Maria:
http://tascha.uw.edu/people/maria-garrido/

Melissa


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From: Michelle Kuttel <mkuttel at cs.uct.ac.za>
Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:25 AM
Subject: [teaching] CS Colloquium: "From a Facebook page to a social
movement" by Maria Garrido in CS LT 302 on Thursday 18th June 13h00-13h45.


Hi all

There will be a colloquium in the Computer Science Department, *LT 302* on
Thursday 18th June  13h00-13h45.

Title: *From a Facebook page to a social movement: The trajectory of the
April 6th Youth Movement and youth civic participation in Egypt*

Abstract:
The increased use of forums, blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and
other platforms in organizing massive non-violent demonstrations in
different parts of the world has ignited the interest among academics,
activists, technologists, and policy-makers alike about the role of social
media in different collective action efforts. From protests in Iran and
Moldova in 2009, the revolutions in the Middle East, the Indignados in
Europe, the Occupy Movement in the US, to the more recent Yo Soy 132 (I’m
the 132nd)  movement in Mexico, young people are creatively leading in the
use of  different social media spaces to mobilize and coordinate street
presence, build narratives of resistance, forge international solidarity
among like-minded movements in other parts of the world, creating  new
forms of political participation and civic engagement. This presentation,
will explore the dynamics of youth political participation and social media
from the perspective of the April 6th Youth Movement in Egypt: The first
movement created for the youth by the youth in the country and a leading
force behind the political mobilizations that toppled long standing
dictator Hosni Mubarak. Public opinion leaders and activists characterized
the Egyptian “Arab Spring” of January 2011 as a “Facebook Revolution”. They
highlight the intrinsic power of social media as an influencing factor for
social change. Undeniably, social media played important roles in that
revolution process. However, these roles cannot be disconnected from a
deeper analysis of the socio- political contexts where these social media
platforms are used and the multiple channels for communications and
information sharing that influence how young people engage through a
variety of ways in collective action efforts


*Bio*
Maria Garrido is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of
Washington’s Information School. Her research explores how people, in
communities facing social and economic challenges, use information and
communication technologies to promote social change. Much of her work
focuses on technology appropriation in the context of social movements and
in international migration. Maria holds a Ph.D. in Communications from the
University of Washington and a master's degree in International Relations
from the University of Chicago.
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The UCT CS colloquium Google calendar can be accessed at:
*https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c8rth251ugghv0bkp0vriuf1lk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Africa/Johannesburg
<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c8rth251ugghv0bkp0vriuf1lk@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Africa/Johannesburg>
)*

*Slides from the CS colloquia held to date this year are available
at:http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/research/cs-colloquia-and-seminars-and-other-talks
<http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/research/cs-colloquia-and-seminars-and-other-talks>*

All welcome, please feel free to forward this announcement.
regards

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Michelle Kuttel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
South Africa

mkuttel at cs.uct.ac.za
http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/~mkuttel
+27 21 6505107
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