Tag Archives: Social Media

Angry Birds V Dictators

The birds are angry, the dictators are scared, and the world will never be the same. Twitter v Oppression, in a clever marketing campaign from France 24.

Read More 10 Comments

Egypt Revolution – Day 11 – Day of Departure, Friday of Farewell

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt on February 4, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information is difficult [...]

Read More 2 Comments

Live-blog: Protests and Unrest in Egypt and Lebanon

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a live-blog report on protests and unrest in Egypt and Lebanon on January 25, 2011. The information and videos in this report are sourced from various social media outlets, with Twitter being our primary source. We will do our best to interpret the events, but the situation is chaotic and information [...]

Read More 3 Comments

Wired: Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution

Wired.com | September 29, 2010 By Jonah Lehrer Just a quick note on Malcolm Gladwell’s Twitter/Social Change article in The New Yorker: It’s an extremely thought-provoking piece, written with the usual flair. For those who haven’t read it, Gladwell argues that online social networks aren’t suited for “real” social activism, so all the utopian predictions [...]

Read More 0 Comments

RFE/RL: Iran Says Facebook And Twitter Are Country’s ‘Hidden Enemies’

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty | September 29, 2010 by Golnaz Esfandiari Iranian state-controlled television has accused Facebook and Twitter of being Iran’s “hidden enemies” and tools used by Western intelligence agencies in order to recruit new members and gather data on individuals. The website Mardomak has posted a video of the report. The [...]

Read More 0 Comments

Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter

(Mashable.com) | March 11, 2010 Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter. The strict instruction makes it clear that even though news continually breaks on Twitter first — especially in disaster [...]

Read More 0 Comments

Feature: Instagrams from Iran (picture compilation)

A few pictures from Iran, taken by ordinary people and posted to Instagram

Iran Feature: Former Detainee Sarah Shourd “The Plight of Iranians and 3 Decades of US Foreign Policy”

The incredible thing for me was that so many Iranians worldwide took the time to care about us despite the thousands of other political prisoners they have to worry about. “I’m an Iranian boy ashamed for what our government did to three American hikers,” another message on Facebook says. “I want you to know Iranian people are with you and against their own government. Iran’s regime is not chosen by Iranian people. They kill and torture us and we are all in a very big prison named Iran.”

Iran Feature: The Supreme Leader Is Worried — Three Developments You Probably Don’t Know

Our partner, EAWorldView, has published a ground-breaking piece on Iran’s Supreme Leader. This is a must-read.

Live-blog: Russia, what’s next?

Live-blog: Egypt Elections, Day 1

A historic day: The first post-Mubarak elections in Egypt

Journalist Mona Eltahawy’s harrowing ordeal – beating, sexual assault and arrest in Egypt – in her own words and tweets

“The past 12 hrs were painful and surreal but I know I got off much much easier than so many other Egyptians.”