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Ed Webb

Over 50 political accounts deleted in Facebook purge | UCL Occupation - 0 views

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facebook activism censorship UK politics

shared by Ed Webb on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • a scandalous abuse of power by Facebook to arbitrarily destroy online communities built up over many months and years
  • Ultimately, the anti-cuts movement in the UK will need to start organising through self-hosted, open source platforms to avoid reliance upon the very corporate power structures we are aiming to challenge
  • Ed Webb on 29 Apr 11
     
    Another plank in the 'host your own' platform. Why do people look at me funny when I say Facebook is evil?
Ed Webb

Tense crowd drowns out Florida pastor's message | detnews.com | The Detroit News - 0 views

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Islamophobia US USA

shared by Ed Webb on 30 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • this is a man without character
  • "This is not (a) man of great depth," O'Reilly said. "We saw the extent of his knowledge today."
  • "He's a Bible-carrying hypocrite," Godek said. "He wants to burn someone else's holy book. I'm a Polish Catholic and I have a lot of Arab and Muslim friends. They are good people." Community leaders for days urged residents to stay away, but Roxanne McDonald, 45, of Dearborn came wearing American flag earrings and carried a sign that stated knowledge and respect would conquer bigotry. "The best thing would be to ignore him," she said. "But I couldn't just stay home."
Ed Webb

How #Binladen Narratives Hindered Analysis | Selected Wisdom - 0 views

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al-qaida binLaden analysis intelligence

shared by Ed Webb on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 04 May 11
     
    Power of narrative, for good or ill
Ed Webb

A CUNY Trustee Expands on His View of What Is Offensive - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Mr. Wiesenfeld interrupted and said the question was offensive because “the comparison sets up a moral equivalence.” Equivalence between what and what? “Between the Palestinians and Israelis,” he said. “People who worship death for their children are not human.” Did he mean the Palestinians were not human? “They have developed a culture which is unprecedented in human history,” he said.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 06 May 11
       
      WTF?
gweyman

The Revolution Will Be YouTubed: Syria's Video Rebels - TIME - 0 views

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revolution syria video youtube protest middle_east meedanpartners

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  • gweyman on 06 May 11
     
    Feature on video activists in Damascus that I helped to commission and edit for TIME.
gweyman

One World Media :: One World Media Week - 1 views

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media middle_east syria egypt #jan25 twitter conference social_media

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  • gweyman on 06 May 11
     
    RT@Tahrir_Square: Social Media Lessons for Development from the #Arab Spring 6.30-8pm Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD Three months on from the dramatic events in Egypt, ODI and One World Media bring together an expert panel to explore what changes to the media landscape in developing countries could mean for the future of development. Social media opens up new possibilities for getting around restrictive media laws, disseminating information and mobilising political movements. More established forms of media will also continue to empower citizens and encourage accountability. Access to technology is giving millions of people a chance to communicate beyond long established boundaries, but what will this mean for the role of media in developing societies? Chair Bettina Peters, Director, Global Forum For Media Development Panel James Deane, Head of Policy, BBC World Service Trust Mark Harvey, Executive Director, Internews Europe Ian Douglas, Technology Writer, The Telegraph Jonathan Glennie, Research Fellow,ODI and blogger, Guardian Development
Ed Webb

Permission to Narrate: Picking Apart the NYT/Zionist Narrative on the Nakba - 0 views

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analysis NYT Israel Palestine israelpalestine refugees Palestinians media

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  • Ed Webb on 16 May 11
     
    Palestinian analyst hammers the NYT's framing of Israel's founding and the 'nakba.'
tabanli2

Viddler.com - Grow your brand with online video - 0 views

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videosharing Youtube

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  • tabanli2 on 16 May 11
     
    This should replace EverestPro vimeo account. Customizable video player.
  • tabanli2 on 16 May 11
     
    This should replace EverestPro vimeo account. Customizable video player. Ebru Africa may use it too.
Ed Webb

NPR at White House's service in name of social media "conversation" on Obama speech | T... - 0 views

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  • Ed Webb on 19 May 11
     
    Are the commenters right that this is too harsh?
Ed Webb

Reaction to Obama's Mideast Speech in Arab Capitals Is Muted and Mixed - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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speech Egypt Arabs media Obama diplomacy publicdiplomacy

shared by Ed Webb on 21 May 11 - No Cached
  • many people said they were too busy with their own popular struggles to pay much attention to words from Washington
  • there was no mention of Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most powerful conservative influence on the region and a close American ally. Mr. Obama said that Iran may have sought to capitalize on the unrest in another ally, Bahrain, they noted, but he failed to mention that Saudi Arabia and other gulf countries had intervened there to crush the revolt
  • “We’ve had long experience with American policy in the region, and we don’t trust Obama’s call for change in Syria,” said Abdel Majid Manjouni, head of the opposition Socialist Democratic Arab Union Party in Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city. “Only the Syrian people can impose change, not the powers abroad.”
Ed Webb

Arrested in the Emirates by Ivan Szelenyi and Paula England | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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UAE rights censorship media bloggers activists

shared by Ed Webb on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • All five are detained in al-Wathba prison in Abu Dhabi, publicly accused of “committing crimes of instigation, breaking laws and perpetrating acts that pose threats to state security, undermining the public order, opposing the government system, and insulting the President, the Vice-President and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.”
Ed Webb

Bahraini police taking aim at reporters, teachers | McClatchy - 0 views

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teachers journalists Bahrain rights abuses media authoritarianism

shared by Ed Webb on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • After severely curbing news coverage of its crackdown on opposition groups by foreign reporters, Bahraini authorities have begun an assault on local journalists working for international news agencies — with arrests, beatings and, apparently in one instance, electric shock.
  • Besides ousting the editors of the only independent daily newspaper, Al Wasat, the authorities have arrested local reporters and photographers and expelled the only resident foreign reporter, who worked for the Reuters news agency. Most foreign news reporters, including this one, have been prevented from entering Bahrain.
  • The intimidation campaign appears to be focused on teachers, who report that as many as 30 elementary and secondary school teachers are taken from their classrooms at a time and driven to police stations where they are subjected to hours of verbal and physical abuse before being released.
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  • "They called me a donkey, a cow, a liar. They said I am fat. I am an embarrassment, " said one teacher. Most of the teachers were beaten over the head, and had to give up their cell phones and laptop computers, the teacher said. "The whole thing was laughable," the teacher said, "except that I had all my curriculum plans and grades for my pupils on my computer. I need that back."
  • Ed Webb on 26 May 11
     
    with allies like these, who needs enemies?
Ed Webb

Will Saudi women drivers spark a revolution? - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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KSA women WomensRights socialmedia

shared by Ed Webb on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • The royal family probably thought that by taking down al-Sharif's Facebook page they could silence her protest, says Pat Bartels at Gather. But the video is still visible on YouTube. This case "illustrates just how oppressed women are in Saudi Arabia," and now that the word is out that women are standing up for their rights, there is no going back."Saudi woman uses social media and lands in jail"
  • Al-Sharif's crime, in the eyes of the government, wasn't driving, says Jane Martinson in Britain's Guardian. It was posting her protest video on Facebook and Twitter — the social networking powerhouses that have helped uprisings spread elsewhere. The government probably won't budge on its longstanding passive support of religious clerics' ban on women driving, but it will be "quick to stamp down" any effort by protesters to harness the power of the internet and use it against the government."A drive for freedom in Saudi Arabia"
Ed Webb

Twitter diplomacy new face of foreign relations - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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twitter diplomacy

shared by Ed Webb on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • was Bildt's mission to find Al Khalifa on Twitter successful? "Yep," Bildt said. Al Khalifa saw his tweet — Bildt's 1,000th — and got in touch with the Swede, who noted that social media isn't the only way he contacts his peers: "I know which ones are on Twitter."
  • diplomats are likely to use social media ever more frequently, even in contacting each other, if only to show that they move with the times
  • When it comes to social networking, Bildt has a strong challenger in Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, who has a more casual tone on his Twitter and Facebook accounts and official home page.
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  • "Was he 20 minutes before me?" Stubb asked AP. "I'm a faster runner than Carl Bildt, but he's faster tweeter."
  • Like Bildt and Al Khalifa, Hague has also sparred on Twitter with his counterparts — trading jokey messages about cricket with Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd
  • In December, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg used Twitter to exchange views on their hopes for the U.N. climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico.
  • The jury's out on whether Twitter diplomacy will lead to more insight into what governments are up to. Given the embarrassment caused by WikiLeaks' releases of U.S. diplomatic cables, foreign affairs officials are likely to be cautious about discussing matters of state online. Jimmy Leach, head of digital engagement at Britain's foreign ministry, said ministers messaging their counterparts on Twitter can help humanize international relations — but doubts a public forum is the place for sensitive discussions. "What you are not going to get is high level diplomacy via Twitter,"
  • Neither Al Khalifa nor Bildt responded to tweets from AP reporters Thursday
Ed Webb

TCM Explores Depictions of Arabs in Cinema in Acclaimed Race & Hollywood Initiative - 0 views

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Arabs movies film stereotypes television

shared by Ed Webb on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • Turner Classic Movies is preparing to launch Race & Hollywood: Arab Images on Film, a month-long movie event that focuses on the diverse portrayals of Arabs in cinema. Tuesday and Thursday nights in July, TCM host Robert Osborne will be joined by internationally acclaimed professor, author and Middle East media consultant Dr. Jack G. Shaheen to introduce a wide range of films and provide extensive insight into Hollywood's ever-changing attitude toward Arab people.
  • 14 TCM premieres, including the award-winning Gulf War action drama Three Kings (1999), starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube; the romantic comedy-adventure Jewel of the Nile (1985), starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas; the Libya-set dramas Lion of the Desert (1981), starring Anthony Quinn; The Black Tent (1956), with Donald Sinden; the adventure films Tarzan the Fearless (1933), with Buster Crabbe; and the silent classic The Sheik (1921), starring Rudolph Valentino. The July lineup will also include David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Kismet (1944), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and several animated shorts featuring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Popeye and other famous characters
  • I can't say the celluloid Arab has changed. He is what he has always been - the cultural 'other.' Arabs have too often been viewed as backward, barbaric and dangerously different through Hollywood's distorted lens. Unfortunately, these stereotypes are now deeply ingrained in American cinema
  • Ed Webb on 27 May 11
     
    This is huge. And overdue.
Ed Webb

Tortured and killed: Hamza al-Khateeb, age 13 - Features - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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torture Syria protests

shared by Ed Webb on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • "This is a campaign of mass terrorism and intimidation: Horribly tortured people sent back to communities by a regime not trying to cover up its crimes, but to advertise them."
  • A week after his body was returned, a Facebook page dedicated to Hamza had more than 60,000 followers, under the title, "We are all Hamza al-Khateeb", a deliberate echo of the online campaign on behalf of Khaled Saeed, the young Egyptian whose death in police custody last year proved a trigger for the revolution in Cairo.
  • Rezan Mustapha, spokesman of the opposition Kurdish Future Movement said he and others had also seen the horrifying footage. "This video moved not only every single Syrian, but people worldwide. It is unacceptable and inexcusable. The horrible torture was done to terrify demonstrators and make them stop calling for their demands." But, said Khateeb, protestors would only be spurred on by such barbarity. "More people will now go to the street. We hold the Syrian secret police fully responsible for the torturing and killing of this child, even if they deny it."
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