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April 16th, 2011 by Colin ˙ Uncategorized ˙ Earlier this week, the illustrious Harvard historian Niall Ferguson published an evocative piece (“The Mash of Civilizations”) in Newsweek on how social networking sites are being used for not only the promotion of democracy, but also to empower enemies of freedom. In light of our recent special on the New Media the Middle East, Ferguson’s article [...]
April 4th, 2011 by Eileen ˙ Blogged, The Revolution Will Be... ˙ The Iranian government is jumping into the new media game by sponsoring a blogging competition, with awards for bloggers who create pro-government content. While the concept is cliche and transparently propagandist, it does illustrate the regime’s growing recognition of social media tools and their effect in public discourse. By throwing themselves into the arena, the Iranian [...]
April 2nd, 2011 by Jessica ˙ The Revolution Will Be..., Tweeted ˙ Last week, I argued that the best way to use Twitter to learn about the revolutions was to follow more specific topics and then to fact-check the information gathered from your Twitter feed.
Andy Carvin (@carvin), the well-known NPR reporter who has been curating social media from the recent protests, recently turned my model on its head: [...]
Populated by just one million people, Bahrain has done an impressive job for such a small state of catching the world’s attention. Bahrain, of course, is packing disproportionate heat – it is a banking hub, produces a significant amount of oil, and is another one of the dominoes in the series of Arab states whose citizens [...]
March 27th, 2011 by Andrew ˙ Student Experiences ˙ To learn more about the role that social media played in the 2009 protests in Iran, I recently spoke with a Yale University student who is originally from Iran and has relatives who were involved in the 2009 protests. Neyaz is a senior at Yale who was born and raised in Iran and immigrated to the [...]
March 27th, 2011 by Jessica ˙ The Revolution Will Be..., Tweeted ˙ Libya is in turmoil, and I can only witness it in 140 characters or less. It is a voluntary limitation; an experiment to see just what I can, and can’t, learn about what is going on there using Twitter feeds alone, somewhat similar to Alf’s YouTube post a few days ago. The answer? A lot about [...]
Hi there!
I’m reporting live from the 3 dot dash Just Peace summit on 31st street in NYC.
I’m here with 31 young colleagues from almost as many countries, and we’re all locked up for a week to talk about, well, global peace.
So in the absence of a proper live blog, I’m going to keep updating this post!
See [...]
March 14th, 2011 by Anne ˙ Uncategorized ˙ In Egypt, protests gathered momentum on Facebook and Twitter, among other social media tools. Simultaneously and subsequently, activists organized, devised, and promoted mobilization against government through these same mediums in nations across the Middle East and, to a more limited extent, in regions of Asia where repressive regimes continue to wield control as well.
One thing is [...]
March 11th, 2011 by Rachel ˙ Uncategorized ˙ Ever since campaigns appeared to master the art of directly engaging volunteers and voters through new media channels and platforms, a question has loomed over the future of political use of these media: What happens after the candidates are elected? Barack Obama implicitly promised to bring youth and tech savvy to governance, and “Government 2.0” has [...]
March 7th, 2011 by Patricio ˙ Uncategorized ˙ The United States federal government is a perfect example of inefficiency. Currently, the federal government certainly has more than 24,000 websites, with 24,000 different designs. There is no coordinated web strategy, and little semblance to the country that boasts the beginnings of the world’s biggest sites. Disorganization extends into the budget as well. With annual [...]
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