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Ukraine And The Stage For Social Protests: When Familiar Visuals Go Viral - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...protests-when-visuals-go-viral

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shared by ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • social familiarity
  • both the creation and the consumption of these images on mobile devices speaks to the relative ease of tapping into that familiarity
  • Thanks to the startups and digital entrepreneurs of this last generation, we are all minor league auteurs or videographers, used to framing the shot, creating more drama, working the lighting.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      The power of social media. Everyone is a storyteller, and the simplicity and availability of electronics, social media, and the world wide web, makes it possible for anybody to be a relevant news anchor.
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  • long-running debate in some wired intellectual circles about whether social media powers revolutions, whether Twitter or Facebook really assist movements – and on the other side, whether digital technologies now help malign governments in sniffing out and crushing dissent
  • Of course the networks matter – because they always have
  • Twitter isn’t a traditional broadcast company; there’s no editor-in-chief who can be bought or pressured
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Interesting point about Twitter becoming a replacement for traditional news outlets like television and radio. Had similar discussion in class.
  • They horrify, but they don’t necessarily empower – or encourage action
  • we can instinctively understand the smaller scale conflict against a familiar backdrop in the same way we can grasp what happened at the Boston Massacre or even Lexington and Concord versus how Washington conducted the siege at Yorktown. And the visuals – really the currency of social media – have that quality of being instantly understood.
  • What’s different is speed (no wait for the 11 pm news) and the ability of everyone to share those images, along with comments and outrage
  • “Facebook ‘likes’ are often ridiculed as meaningless, but they can make a person realize that their social network feels the same as they do—and that’s a socially and politically powerful thing.”
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Powerful because without awareness there will never be action.
  • ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
     
    When social movement meets social media
Stanislav Gamar

Amazing crowdsourced music video uses thousands of mouse cursors as cast members | The ... - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...-kilo-crowdsourced-music-video

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shared by Stanislav Gamar on 08 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Roel Wouters to create an browser-based experience that tracks your cursor movements and later integrates them into the video itself for future playback.
  • thousands of cursors form patterns by sticking within guidelines
    • Stanislav Gamar
      Stanislav Gamar on 08 Feb 14
       
      Please note that article does not have any questionable content. But if you follow the link and watch the actual video there is very mild nudity shown at the end of the video.
Claudia Yung

Half The Sky Movement- Facebook - 0 views

www.facebook.com/HalftheGame

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shared by Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Read about the 121 organizations who made it through our most rigorous application & evaluation process yet.
  • Women are often victims of hunger, but they also play a crucial role in defeating it, says the World Food Programme. Share this fact and help spread awareness of the issues facing women and girls worldwide!
  • It's Fact Friday!
    • Claudia Yung
      Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
       
      They do something called Fact Friday, where they upload a fact every Friday about women in our world. 
  • Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
     
    A Facebook page that hopes to raise awareness and funds for the empowerment of women and girls across the world. Various facts and statistics are uploaded and there is also a game. By creating an interactive platform, they hope to encourage more people to visit their page.
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