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PAST EVENT: Politics in the Age of Twitter
May 17: Politics in the Age of Twitter
17 May 11

Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals / Zodiac HeadsA panel discussion to coincide with the installation of Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads at Somerset House

Monday 23rd May 17
Portico Rooms, Somerset House
19.00-20.30

Padraig Reidy, Index on Censorship’s News Editor, will join a panel comprising Dr Anne Alexander of Cambridge University, Dr Joss Hands, author of @ is for Activism and Sunny Hundal, Editor of Liberal Conspiracy blog, to debate the wider impact of the internet and social media in particular on the practice of 21st century politics and the nature of protest movements.

The upheavals sweeping the Arab world have been hailed by some as the Twitter revolutions. But just how influential a role has social media really played in the fall of dictatorships?

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