Resources for the study of activist politics, state propaganda, collaboration, dissent, and opinion management on Twitter.

No César Albarrán in this list?? 

So, in the end it is not Hugo!!! It is 200 Hugos!

Adobe starts an advertising campaign against Apple! 'We Love Choice' - 'We Love Apple' This is getting hotter and hotter. This is the official reaction from Adobe. 

Something about Global Voices 5 years after. It is impressive the way this alternative source of information has expanded. Now, in the Internet Age, the information environment has gone suddenly from a desert to a rainforest. We have moved rapidly from a problem of scarcity to a problem of over-abundance - at least for some kinds of information. Other kinds of information remain rare and harder to find amidst the rapidly proliferating dominant species.

It seems that New York Police Department has somehow linked the failed terrorist attack in Times Square to all this fuss around the 'drawing Mohammed' thing. There is a Facebook group and some Youtube videos have been taken down. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113257775375783#!

From Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez's blog. A short post that describes how the Cuban communist intelligentsia deals with Twitter. Interesting to see how some dissidents have contacts outside Cuba who are in charge of maintaining their twitter accounts. 

A small video on how text in this visual and digital age, far from disappearing, is becoming a verb... going away from its former linearity, becoming hypertext!  Saw it a few years back, however is still worth sharing!

Article that suggests that China might be reshaping its media apparatus to deepen its leverage over the Web.  Policing over social networking, microblogging and video.

Blog post

Google in the articulation of a 'foreign policy'??? Could Internet companies develop these kinds of policies?? 

A leak of the requirements made by the Chinese gov to Chinese media outlets on how  to deal with the google affair!

An article from China Daily, the Chinese version of why google is leaving China. We need to take a look at both sides of the story!

More evidence presented by Morozov on how the new media can serve the purposes of radical organizations. He is been arguing for a while that new media and new technologies (in this case the wikis) are not necessarily pro-western democratic tools.

A brief review of a letter that 'some' Chinese netizens sent to Google and to the Chinese gov. The 'netizens' confirm that they "support necessary censorship of Internet content and communications", however, they give a few guidelines on how this censorship should be conducted.

I just found this and thought that you guys could use it. Harvard has taped several popular courses including things related to computer science, chinese history, ancient civilizations, etc.