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Twitter and YouTube spread information about riots and political unrest. Can these media "get around" censorship?

Part III: How do these problems relate to activities across different areas of life - not only in formal educational institutions per se, but also in informal contexts and activities of learning? Using fresh data from the Trendstream Global Web Index-a recurring survey of more than 50,000 users of social platforms in 18 markets-we mapped by country how people are sharing information about themselves online. We looked at five broadcast behaviors: blogging, managing a social-network profile, sharing photos, sharing videos, and microblogging.

Great graphic of how various countries across the world are using social Internet or social media. Includes China and the U.S.

Great diagram about social media in China - a reminder that the international landscape is much more broad than just Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn!

2008 government publication

National broadband policies listed by country

Two school districts on opposite ends of the country have introduced Twitter to their arsenal of communication tools. Broward County Public School in Fort Lauderdale, Flordia and Anchorage School District in Anchorage, Alaska have both signed up for Twitter's social media messaging site to post updates, called "tweets", that are then sent out to parents, teachers, students and staff within the district. "This provides the district an additional method to deliver information expediently and directly to students, parents, and the community," said the Florida district. "Twitter supplements the district's current communications vehicles, which include parent link phone messages, e-mails, the district's Web site, BECON-TV, and the parent newsletter."

Micheal Wesch is an educator/anthropologist who has created some pretty popular videos that explain Web 2.0 This would be an appropriate channel to link to in section II. Types and History of New Media

"YouTube's own guidelines already block videos featuring sex, violence, bestiality and child pornography. But under the "refused classification" rules, videos featuring subjects as diverse as euthanasia, drug use and graffiti, would also be banned. Google said it would not voluntarily censor videos on these subjects because exposing the topics to public debate was vital for democracy."

I'm surprised that a communications minister in Australia would request that Google voluntarility censor videos about drug use and euthanasia. Where would this type of censorship stop? Glad Google politely said "no" citing the importance of access to information for democracy.

Background information on censorship in public schools.

The government in many of the countries discussed is censoring social media to keep citizens from sharing/hearing information that may go against the current powers at large.

This is a research brief/information capsule from my local school district. It discusses the importance of global education, and on page 6 speaks directly to the issue of the use of the internet in this context. Also provides links to many internet programs/resources on pg. 9.