Tricia Wang on the geography of trust in social networks (video)
Tricia Wang is a cultural sociologist interested in understanding how people use digital tools in their day to day lives.
In her talk at the Lift 12 conference, she focuses on a story you may have heard of, concerning a student who ended up making international headlines for throwing shoes at the architect of China’s internet censorship infrastructure and then become the hero for information freedom worldwide.
Tricia tells us what happened to the student and how the outcomes were dependent on a variety of factors that tells us a lot about how we socialize and build trust online.
