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As we all have witnessed, 2011 has brought with it the boiling point of civil unrest in several autocracies in the North Africa and Middle East regions. Whether it is due to social media being introduced into these populations or just a coincidence is unclear. Although, it is clear that social media has been seen by [...]
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 [...]
Can we understand the revolutions through Youtube?
(WARNING: Although the links in this post have been carefully selected, and although Youtube has limits on the amount of violence that can be posted on its website, some of the videos linked to here are not just NSFW but downright disturbing. You click outside of this blog at your [...]
March 19th, 2011 by Patricio ˙ Uncategorized ˙ The last 10 years have in no small part been a celebration of what the new media has become. It has emerged as something that enforces transparency, educates and excites the masses, involves the community, and redefines the economy. However, the internet has also emerged with a much more sinister side: as a tool to spread [...]
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 [...]
February 21st, 2011 by Rey-Hanna Vakili ˙ Uncategorized ˙ The success of a politician’s election campaign is in large part determined by how effectively they can utilize the new technologies of their time. With the introduction of radio, it was all about who could speak better, with television, who could look better. Today it seems to be all about who can tweet better.
Obama’s 2008 campaign [...]
After the revelation that Jared Loughner—the gunman in the Giffords shooting—had posted a series of YouTube videos cataloguing his crazed thoughts, the attention in the mainstream media turned to the impact of vitriol in political commentary. While contributors on both the left and the right tried to paint the incident as an instance of extremism from [...]
February 25th, 2010 by Sam Duboff ˙ Technology ˙ Apparently YouTube videos are here to stay as part of the college admissions process. After the infamous Yale admissions video, this year, Tufts has added a section to its application for seniors to submit an optional video about themselves. Approximately 1,000 of the 15,000 applicants included a video.
Some of taken the Elle Woods approach and made [...]
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