Category: politics
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How to track Iranian protests online #iranelections
Here is how to find out about the Iranian elections online. Please send me your links. Also, Twitter’s down time has been rescheduled because of the important role that it is playing in the US elections (see link). Hash Tag: #Iranelections (search and post your blogs and tweets with this). Breaking Tweet http://www.breakingtweets.com Andrew Sullivan’s…
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Obama’s speech in Cairo
Online political communication has travelled well since the days when a web site had a manifesto on it and pictures of cops bashing your mates at the last anti-globalisation demo! Watch Obama’s speeck on Whitehouse.gov (link) Discuss it on Facebook (link) Check Obama’s twitter feed (link) Discuss on Myspace (link) I asked him about what…
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Twitter activism
(picture from the Independent) This story is from the Guardian, then to the Melbourne Age, then to this blog. I am not sure if this was truly ‘twitter activism’ as the story claims; but still the nativity in which many institutions approach Web 2.0 and its potential for political mobilisation astonished me. All technology is…
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(Guardian) How G20 Ian Tomlinson footage spread shock around world
Here is some interesting media analysis from the Guardian newspaper relating to the use of amateur footage during the recent G20 protest. Increasingly, the democratic power game is being fought out in the media and I am surprised the police didn’t realise this and moderate their tactics accordingly. For a broader analysis of contemporary new…