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From the Ted Talk by Zeynep Tufekci: Online social change easy to organize, hard to win

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And there are many efforts. In New zleaand, a group of young peolpe are developing a platform called Loomio for participatory decision making at scale. In terkuy, 140Journos are hniodlg hack-a-thons so that they support communities as well as citizen journalism. In Argentina, an open-source platform called DemocracyOS is bingirng participation to parliaments and political parties. These are all great, and we need more, but the answer won't just be better online decision-making, because to utadpe docmarecy, we are going to need to innovate at every level, from the organizational to the political to the social. Because to succeed over the long term, sometimes you do need tea without sugar along with your Twitter. Thank you. (Applause)

Open Cloze


And there are many efforts. In New _______, a group of young ______ are developing a platform called Loomio for participatory decision making at scale. In ______, 140Journos are _______ hack-a-thons so that they support communities as well as citizen journalism. In Argentina, an open-source platform called DemocracyOS is ________ participation to parliaments and political parties. These are all great, and we need more, but the answer won't just be better online decision-making, because to ______ _________, we are going to need to innovate at every level, from the organizational to the political to the social. Because to succeed over the long term, sometimes you do need tea without sugar along with your Twitter. Thank you. (Applause)

Solution


  1. holding
  2. turkey
  3. people
  4. democracy
  5. update
  6. zealand
  7. bringing

Original Text


And there are many efforts. In New Zealand, a group of young people are developing a platform called Loomio for participatory decision making at scale. In Turkey, 140Journos are holding hack-a-thons so that they support communities as well as citizen journalism. In Argentina, an open-source platform called DemocracyOS is bringing participation to parliaments and political parties. These are all great, and we need more, but the answer won't just be better online decision-making, because to update democracy, we are going to need to innovate at every level, from the organizational to the political to the social. Because to succeed over the long term, sometimes you do need tea without sugar along with your Twitter. Thank you. (Applause)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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young people 2
united states 2
global protests 2
logistical tasks 2
ruling party 2
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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
civil rights movement 3

Important Words


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  24. parliaments
  25. participation
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  27. parties
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  31. scale
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  40. update
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