Mr. Ghonim says it all – the internet and social media facilitated the coming together of the revolution. It broke down the feeling of isolation that the Egyptian regime banked on. Social capital was created. Enough said by me, Ghonim says it better. For other posts on the role of social media in affecting change…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13
Pradically All the Time is out! http://bit.ly/cb0ShI ▸ Top stories today via @maguimartinez @sdv_duras # Al Jazeera: Kenyan youth map their home (another amazing MapKibera video). http://ow.ly/3R3GR # Sunday Nation (kenya): Youth unemployment and Egyptian lesson http://ow.ly/3R7YS # The Standard: We ignore Egypt’s chaos at our own peril. http://ow.ly/3R3jG # Pradically All the Time is…
Repost: Update from Harrassmap
Conclusions from HarassMap’s First Progress Report
November 1st, 2010 to December 29th, 2010
Digital Access for all (2): For Africa, the Time is NOW
This post is a follow-up to my Digital Access for All post in August where i commented on an article out of Tanzania by Declan McCormack on the impact of mobile technologies in East Africa. McCormack reported that in Africa, mobile phone use has increased by 550% in the past 5 years and subscriptions have…
Part III: Whose Tweet Counts Anyways? Egyptian blogger demonstrates the power of Social Media
So, I meant to send this last week, but in changing over my blog it got lost in the move. Yet, in light of the missive by Gladwell, what happened here is a case study in the value of social media. The Egyptian government is notorious for its heavy handed, anti-democratic actions. Yet, through the…
Part II of Whose Tweet Counts Anyways? A Response to Malcolm Gladwell
“We seem to have forgotten what activism is,” writes Gladwell. If activism is defined only as taking direct action and protesting on the streets, he might be right. But if activism extends to changing the minds of people, to making populations aware of what their governments are doing in their name, to influencing opinion across…
Whose Tweet Counts Anyways? A response to Malcolm Gladwell.
Recently the twitter/facebooker/bloggers sphere has all been a-twitter about Malcolm Gladwell of Tipping Point fame’s slam of social media as a tool for advocacy. Seems Gladwell does not believe that social media creates very strong “links”, which especially effects those who would wish to use twitter as an advocacy tool. He states that the twitter…