User Profile for Patrick MeierPatrick_Meier (Patrick_Meier)
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Patrick MeierPatrick_Meier
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
Bio:
I am a third-year Henry R. Luce PhD Candidate at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). My dissertation research analyzes the impact of the information revolution on authoritarian rule and social resistance. I am particularly interested in how repressive regimes and resistance groups use information communication technologies to further their own strategic and tactical goals. To this end, I am the director for applied research at DigiActive, a non-profit dedicated to digital activism, and am working on two Internet and democracy studies for the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center on Internet and Society.
Vital Statistics:
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Joined: Sep 08 '08
Last login: Apr 09 '09 |
Speaker Information:
| Speaking Topics: | Digital activism, nonviolent action, ICTs, conflict prevention, conflict early warning, humanitarian response, crisis mapping, citizen journalism |
| Speaker Tags: | Digital activism, nonviolent action |
| Current Affiliations: | Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI),
The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, DigiActive, Ushahidi |
| Education: | PhD Candidate, The Fletcher School; MA International Affairs, SIPA Columbia University; BA(Hons) University of York (UK) & UC Berkeley. |
