Gaurav Mishra

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Gaurav Mishra is the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet at Georgetown University. As the Yahoo! Fellow, Gaurav is leading research on how social media is being used in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Gaurav is also teaching a graduate course at Georgetown University on Social Media in Business, Development and Government.

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18 June 2009

The Irony of Iran's ‘Twitter Revolution’

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Activism, Feature, Iran

When the dust settles down on the Iran election crisis, we will see that Twitter was more useful as a media tool and not as an organizing tool.

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9 June 2009

Caste Based Communities on Orkut Mirror India's Splintered Society

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Advocacy, Feature, India

I have written before about Shiv Sena's militant approach towards Orkut communities critical of the party, its leader Bal Thakeray, or its Hindutva ideology. Caste-based communities on Orkut are another disturbing example of online communities mirroring the splintered nature of Indian society.

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15 May 2009

Case Study: The Report Card on Vote Report India Version 1.0

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Activism, Feature, India

The 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections have come to an end and so has version 1.0 of Vote Report India. We have had our successes and failures and I have...

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11 May 2009

Digital Activism & the 4Cs Social Media Framework

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Activism, Advocacy, Feature, Presentation

The 4Cs form a hierarchy of what is possible with social media. As we move from Content to Collaboration to Community to Collective Intelligence, it becomes increasingly difficult to both observe these layers and activate them. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

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20 April 2009

Build Your Own Alltop For Advocacy With WordPress and OneNews

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Advocacy, Feature, India

Now, you can build your own Alltop-like dashboard for your advocacy project, using Wordpress and OneNews. While I won't encourage you to make a dashboard just because you can, I can see many applications for such dashboards.

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18 April 2009

The Perils of Facebook Activism: Nisha Susan Locked Out of Pink Chaddi Campaign's Facebook Group

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Activism, Advocacy, Feature, India

The Pink Chaddi Facebook Group has been getting hacked throughout last month, and, instead of dealing with the hackers, Facebook suspended both the group and Nisha's account last week. In an open letter to Facebook, Nisha wondered if the first rule of Facebook activism is to not use Facebook.

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