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Press release archive: About NPG - 0 views

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media Arab Arabs science

shared by Ed Webb on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Nature Middle East launches today at www.nature.com/naturemiddleeast. The new website from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) showcases scientific and medical research from the Arabic-speaking Middle East region and is continuously updated with articles in English and Arabic. The King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Saudi Arabia, is sponsoring Nature Middle East.
  • "We are proud to be launching Nature Middle East, which reflects our growing commitment to a region with a proud scientific history and a promising future," comments David Swinbanks, Publishing Director for NPG. "We believe this launch is particularly timely, as nations from across the region increase their investment in science and medical research facilities and programmes. Nature Middle East will be the place to keep in touch with these exciting new developments."
  • Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
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  • Nature Middle East Editor Mohammed Yahia has been actively promoting science in the Middle East region for a number of years. Prior to joining Nature Middle East, Mohammed was the MENA region coordinator for the website SciDev.Net and has worked as a reporter, editor, and consultant.
  • following the launch of Nature India in February 2008 and Nature China in 2007
Ed Webb

BBC News - Dubai jails Indian pair for 'sexy texts' - 0 views

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UAE dubai telephony mobile telephones texting

shared by Ed Webb on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
  • a British couple said they would appeal a one-month jail sentence for exchanging a passionate kiss in a restaurant
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The end of Skype in Egypt | Bikya Masr - 1 views

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Egypt telephony skype censorship mobile telephones India UAE

shared by Ed Webb on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
  • the lobbying of the three Egyptian mobile operators, Vodafone, Mobinil and Etisalat have won the most recent battle with regulators to ban the Internet phone service
  • “Now, I don’t think I will be able to talk to my brother in Virginia because it is too expensive. I don’t make enough money to buy a computer and get the Internet at home,”
  • In September, Indian agencies recommended a ban on international internet telephony until a system to trace the calls was put in place.
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Israeli supermarket parodies Dubai assassination in TV advert - Times Online - 0 views

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Israel Dubai UAW Mossad assassination murder media politics

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • a television commercial inspired by the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai
  • an actress wearing a wide-brimmed floppy hat mimics Israel's policy of neither confirming nor denying involvement in the assassination, saying she “couldn't admit to anything”.
  • He denied that the advertisement was in bad taste, saying that the company hoped to capitalise on the huge amount of media attention generated by the Dubai killing.
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  • Mossad has become popular again in Israel, with stores selling out of the agency’s memorabilia and a growing number of people visiting its official website to get information on how to become agents.
  • Interpol issued arrest notices for a further 16 suspects wanted by Dubai in connection with the killing, in addition to the 11 already issued
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BBC News - Internet access is 'a fundamental right' - 0 views

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internet rights survey opinion bbc

shared by Ed Webb on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Turkey most strongly support the idea of net access as a right, the survey found. More than 90% of those surveyed in Turkey, for example, stated that internet access is a fundamental right - more than those in any other European Country.
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Activists aim to punch holes in online shields of authoritarian regimes - SiliconValley... - 0 views

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censorship evasion filters activists Iran China USA

shared by Ed Webb on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Haystack, a program to help Iranians wiggle past government filters as tensions between authorities and the opposition movement surge.
  • virtual slingshots to take on government censorship
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Icelandic Modern Media Initiative - 0 views

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media freedom Iceland

shared by Ed Webb on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 12 Feb 10
     
    NB idea of offshore registration for digital media.
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New Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas | - 0 views

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media digital networks opinion analysis

shared by Ed Webb on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • I want to suggest that both of those terms, “media,” and “new,” while perhaps descriptive in some respects, ultimately conceal more than they reveal. Thus their continued use prevents us from focusing on how this change from analog to digital is more than just a media shift.
  • Many media scholars—and, I would suggest, many media studies programs—approach the study of digital network communication by relying on platforms used to analyze analog broadcast media. The assumption is that all one needs to do to critique “new media” is to utilize tools developed for the analysis of radio, television, and film, and update them for the 21st century. This is what I would refer to as the digital facelift model of scholarship: prior media analysis can be updated for the digital revolution
  • we are talking about a rather significant shift in the substructure and organization of knowledge
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  • The author function is a particular fiction which is an outgrowth of a prior technological moment, one which perhaps is no longer appropriate in the digital network. As Foucault argues the author function is not natural but rather historical, “characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.”2 Books, magazines, television and radio programs, and film all have authors, but if we begin our inquiry of “new media” by asking, “what does it mean to be an author for this ‘new media,’” we miss the way that authorship itself is heterogenous to the new archival structure.
  • writing and reading separate out the act of composition from the act of consumption in a way that is not descriptive of the type of collaborative literacy and composition that occurs in networked spaces
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