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La bombe Wikileaks: visualisation du Guardian - 1 views

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    "Afghanistan war logs: our selection of significant incidents"
stan mag

The Political Power of Social Media | iRevolution - 0 views

  • herefore, attempts to outline their effects on political action are too often reduced to dueling anecdotes
  • two perspectives on the role of social media in non-permissive environments, the instrumentalist versus environmental schools of thought.
  • Throughout the Cold War, the United States invested in a variety of communications tools, including broadcasting the Voice of America radio station, hosting an American pavilion in Moscow  [...], and smuggling Xerox machines behind the Iron Curtain to aid the underground press, or samizdat.”
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  • protests, when effective, are the end of a long process, rather than a replacement for it.
  • t is in this second, social step that political opinions are formed. This is the step in which the Internet in general, and social media in particular, can make a difference.
  • llows people to privately and publicly articulate and debate a welter of conflicting views.
  • one of the main forms of coordination is what the military calls ‘shared awareness,’ the ability of each member of a group to not only understand the situation at hand but also understand that everyone else does, too. Social media increase shared awareness by propagating messages through social networks.
Arnault Coulet

How China's '50 Cent Army' Could Wreck Web 2.0 (via @hugocousin) #fb - 0 views

  • Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “assert supremacy over online public opinion
  • Some estimates claim that the 50 Cent Army includes a whopping 300,000 people.
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