But even though social media and the Internet did not cause the Arab Spring and the
fall of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, they clearly defined how and when these
protests took place, and are thus of direct interest to this article. CMC creates a space
between the public and private spheres that was clearly little understood by the
authorities in these case studies. Technology allowed people to share not simply
information about how and when to protest, but more importantly, to share images
and videos that contributed to a different interpretation of events than that which the
authorities themselves wished.
Photos of the storm were popping up on many social networks including Twitter
and Google+, but Instagram data showed at least 521,000 photos with the
hashtag Sandy
On Twitter, some 147,000 pictures were posted over a 24-hour period tagged
Sandy
Instagram has turned my iPhone into a window into all things Sandy with live views of flooding roads, to dangling cranes and drinking friends. It both captures the events unfolding (and unraveling) outside and also gives me a peak into how people are riding out the storm inside.
Instagram captures the storm entirely.
The storm has yet make landfall, but already there have are 300,026 photos shared on the mobile site under #sandy; 183,003 under #hurricanesandy, 27,564 photos shared tagged #frankenstorm and 1,467 marked with #huricanesandy
people sent more than 20 million tweets about the storm from October 27 through November 1. This was more than twice the usage from the two previous days
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largest share of this news and information, fully 34% of the Twitter discourse about the storm, involved news organizations providing content, government sources offering information, people sharing their own eyewitness accounts and still more passing along information posted by others
First, the norms around elite educational access are changing, and some of the Ivy walls are coming down with regard to sharing access to elite institutions and academics. iTunesU allowed
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Where such toys and tools impel a new demographic toward technology, these platforms are truly bringing down the costs of technical literacy, and insofar as this has positive impact, they are accretive to society