Posts Tagged ‘Arab Spring’
Internet a key player in US foreign policy
RICE (US) — Internet governance policy has moved from being a relatively marginal issue in US foreign policy to be a significant component of the country’s international affairs and national security strategy. Continue…
Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:51 - 0 Comments
Society & Culture - May 22, 2012 16:30 - 1 Comment
Women dubbed ‘Twitterati’ of Arab Spring
RICE (US) — During the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, young women in the region used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 3, 2011 12:19 - 2 Comments
OMG! Twitter has roots in the 17th century
STANFORD (US) — The explosion of information via social media is nothing new. Europeans were similarly bombarded with an avalanche of new communication forms during the 17th and 18th centuries. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 29, 2011 14:58 - 0 Comments
Freedom or repression: Twitter goes both ways
PENN STATE (US) — Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging were used both as tools for freedom and as weapons of repression in recent civil strife in Egypt and Kenya. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 20, 2011 12:34 - 0 Comments
Computer ‘reads’ news to predict conflicts
U. ILLINOIS (US) — By analyzing the overall tone and geographic references of large amounts of global news media, supercomputers could help forecast human behavior. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
Arab Spring: Revolution goes viral
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring, according to an analysis of millions of tweets and YouTube posts. (more…)
