How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

TODAY’S TED TALK Zeynep Tufekci: How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win 16:14 minutes · TEDGlobal 2014 Today the speed at which we spread information is so fast that a single email can launch a worldwide awareness campaign, as with the Occupy movement. Yet as techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci seeks to show, the ease of social media can actually hurt social change in the long run. From Gezi to the Arab Spring to Ukraine to Hong Kong, she shows how today's movements can miss out on the benefits of doing things the hard (and slow) way. Watch now » PLAYLIST OF THE DAY Freedom rising From the Arab Spring to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, a new generation of freedom fighters -- entrepreneurs, journalists, activists -- shares powerful stories of resistance against dictatorships and oppression. Watch » 11 talks · Total run time 2:41:01