Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Kony 2012: How it spread

A very relevant article on the recent Kony 2012 phenomenon.

Even more interesting is the blog where Zuckerman got the data visualization: http://giladlotan.com/

Setting the Advocacy Agenda: Theorizing Issue Emergence and Nonemergence in Transnational Advocacy Networks

The reading for my Politics of Statecraft class on advocacy groups included this article on transnational advocacy networks using a case study of children in armed conflict organizations. It uses UCINET to map the network of hyperlinks for Watchlist and children in armed conflict organizations.

R. Charli Carpenter. "Setting the Advocacy Agenda: Theorizing Issue Emergence and Nonemergence in Transnational Advocacy Networks." International Studies Quarterly (2007) 51, 99–120.