Erica Chenoweth, Joan Donovan, Oren Segal
Jan 26, 2023Virtually Violent
Are Online Attacks "Violence?"
New Books Network 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "violent" could jeopardize the future of disruptive protests designed to protest those same communities.
Guests:
- Erica Chenoweth, professor of human rights and international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs To Know.
- Dr. Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
- Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.