Collecting resources and articles about how new media (web 2.0 - participation media) is changing the face of politics in many countries, particularly oppressive regimes. Please keep it relevant - posts that don't apply to the topic will be deleted!
Storyful was founded by journalists who wanted to curate the real-time web. In other words, separate the useful news from the river of noise flowing through channels like Twitter and YouTube. We set out to discover the most authentic sources on the big stories.
The genre here is all M's: mix :: match :: mash :: manifest.
The Digital Humanities seeks to play an inaugural role with respect to a world in which, no longer the sole producers, stewards, and disseminators of knowledge or culture, universities are called upon to shape natively digital models of scholarly discourse for the newly emergent public spheres of the present era (the www, the blogosphere, digital libraries, etc.), to model excellence and innovation in these domains, and to facilitate the formation of networks of knowledge production, exchange, and dissemination that are, at once, global and local.