Join us for a discussion on the book 'Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local' with the author and two distinguished speakers. This event is hosted by the Centre for Digital Governance.
In her book 'Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local' (Oxford University Press, 2022), author Nina Hall (Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Europe) explores the global spread of digital advocacy organizations such as MoveOn (US), Campact (Germany) and GetUp (Australia). She illustrates how these organisations are using digital analytics to rapidly mobilize large memberships and shape public debates on climate change, trade, and refugee rights.
In this talk, she would discuss the core lessons from her book along with Paola Pierri (Director of Research, Democratic Society), moderated by Daniela Stockmann (Professor of Digital Governance, Hertie School).
Prior registration is mandatory for the event.
Speakers
Nina Hall is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Europe. She previously worked as a Lecturer at the Hertie School. Her research explores the role of transnational advocacy and international organizations in international relations. She has published research on advocacy organizations and multilateral institutions in: the International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Global Environmental Politics, and Global Governance. Her first book Displacement, Development and Climate Change: International Organizations Moving Beyond their Mandates? (Routledge, 2016) explored how UNHCR, IOM and UNDP adapted to climate change.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Paola Pierri is currently the Director of Research at Democratic Society, where she is exploring the implications of digitalisation and digital technology on democratic practices and public space. Her research interest focuses on the connections between digital and democracy: from exploring modes of digital activism and participation, to investigating questions of justice and human rights that arise (or are exacerbated) as a result of the increased digitalisation of the public space.
Daniela Stockmann is Professor of Digital Governance at the Hertie School. Her current research focuses on the challenge of how to tackle harmful content spreading via social media platforms, comparing policy approaches in the United States, China, and Europe. Her most recent project, funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council, explores the impact of the technological design of social media platforms on user behaviour regarding politics in China. Her book, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013), received the 2015 Goldsmith Book Prize awarded by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.
