{"id":22783,"date":"2011-05-17T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:19:48","slug":"politics-in-the-age-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22783","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Politics in the Age of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AiWeiWei.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22692\" title=\"Ai Weiwei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AiWeiWei-140x140.gif\" alt=\"Ai Weiwei Circle of Animals \/ Zodiac Heads\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>A panel discussion to coincide with the installation of Ai Weiwei\u2019s <a title=\"Index on Censorship: \u201cFreedom to express yourself is what it means to be an artist\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/05\/ai-weiwei-lisson-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Circle of Animals \/ Zodiac Heads<\/a> at Somerset House<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 23rd May 17<br \/>\nPortico Rooms, Somerset House<br \/>\n19.00-20.30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Padraig Reidy, Index on Censorship\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.somersethouse.org.uk\/product\/Events\/Politics-in-the-Age-of-Twitter\/240\">Buy tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 17:<\/strong> Politics in the Age of Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[327,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22783"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35657,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions\/35657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}