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Changing The Conversation
10.25.11 - Fall 2011
Instructor: Andrew Hoffman
Social Media Revolutions
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Revolution - Definition
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution
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3 Types of Revolution
Political RevolutionSudden & Violent RevolutionSlow but Sweeping Transformation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution
Thursday, October 27, 2011A political revolution, in the Trotskyist theory, is an upheaval in which the government is replaced, or the form of government altered, but in which property relations are predominantly left intact. The revolutions in France in 1830 and 1848 are often cited as political revolutions.2) sudden and violent revolutions that seek not only to establish a new political system but to transform an entire society and 3) slow but sweeping transformations of the entire society that take several generations to bring about (ex. religion)
Dictatorship - Definition
A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship
Thursday, October 27, 2011An autocracy is a form of government in which one person is the supreme power within the state.
In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.
Iran Elections - 2009
The “Twitter Revolution”
#IranElection
Thursday, October 27, 2011Protests following the 2009 Iranian presidential election against the disputed victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi occurred in major cities in Iran and around the world[34] starting June 13, 2009. The protests were given several titles by their proponents including Green Revolution, Green Wave or Sea of Green, reflecting presidential candidate Mousavi's campaign color
Iran Elections - SM Timeline
http://mashable.com/2009/06/21/iran-election-timeline/
Mashable Timeline
Timeline of events via multiple platforms
Thursday, October 27, 2011The US State Dept even contacted Twitter to postpone a network update in order to not stop the flow of info coming out of Iran
Why Twitter?
“So what exactly makes Twitter the medium of the moment? It's free, highly mobile, very personal and very quick. It's also built to spread, and fast. Twitterers like to append notes called hashtags — #theylooklikethis — to their tweets, so that they can be grouped and searched for by topic; especially interesting or urgent tweets tend to get picked up and retransmitted by other Twitterers, a practice known as retweeting, or just RT. And Twitter is promiscuous by nature: tweets go out over two networks, the Internet and SMS, the network that cell phones use for text messages, and they can be received and read on practically anything with a screen and a network connection.”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html
Thursday, October 27, 2011The US State Dept even contacted Twitter to postpone a network update in order to not stop the flow of info coming out of Iran
The Weaknesses
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html
As is so often the case in the media world, Twitter's strengths are also its weaknesses. The vast body of information about current events in Iran that circulates on Twitter is chaotic, subjective and totally unverifiable. It's impossible to authenticate sources.
Thursday, October 27, 2011Twitter didn't start the protests in Iran, nor did it make them possible. But there's no question that it has emboldened the protesters, reinforced their conviction that they are not alone and engaged populations outside Iran in an emotional, immediate way that was never possible before.
Haiti earthquake
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/haiti-twitter-earthquake-disaster
Twitter Rundown As Earthquake Was Happening
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Haiti earthquake
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/haiti.quake/
Dedicated Website to Coverage
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Haiti earthquake
According to the Twitter-tracking service Sysomos, 2.3 million Tweets included the word "Haiti" or "Red Cross" between January 12 and January 14. There were also 189,024 tweets that included "90999," the number that could be used to text message a donation to the Red Cross.
http://www.journalism.org/index_report/social_media_aid_haiti_relief_effort
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Haiti earthquake
http://www.journalism.org/index_report/social_media_aid_haiti_relief_effort
Other online entities played a role as well. On Facebook, a number of Haiti-related groups materialized. According to CNN.com, the largest group-Earthquake Haiti-had nearly 170,000 members by Thursday.
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Haiti earthquake
http://www.journalism.org/index_report/social_media_aid_haiti_relief_effort
News organizations also used their Web sites to provide real-time information and ways visitors could help. MSNBC, for example, created a list of organizations that were providing aid and encouraged donations. But many news sites made use of information initially posted by social media.
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Haiti earthquake
http://www.journalism.org/index_report/social_media_aid_haiti_relief_effort
Ultimately, according to CNN, the use of social media helped raise $8 million by the end of the first week.
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Haiti earthquake
Twitter became the megaphone
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Haiti earthquake
Facebook became the connector
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Haiti earthquake
Facebook became the place for charity
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Haiti earthquake
Facebook became the place for charity
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Thursday, October 27, 2011How many of you texted a donation to the Red Cross during the earthquake in Haiti or another cause during?
As you can see, these advances in technology are radically changing the way we interact with each other and with the causes/crisis’ that affect the people of the world.
Japan Earthquake
For the week of March 14-18, 2011, a full 64% of blog links, 32% of Twitter news links and the top 20 YouTube news videos were about that subject, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1939/japan-earthquake-nuclear-reactors-blogs-twitter-you-tube
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Japan Earthquake
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1939/japan-earthquake-nuclear-reactors-blogs-twitter-you-tube
"Events like this are no longer just stories that happen to foreign people in a far foreign land. They happen right here, right now, in our own living rooms in every place on Earth," said Andy Mayhew at Weather & Earth Science News.
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Japan Earthquake
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Japan Earthquake
Ann Curry, NBC, helps make connection via Twitter.
Curry took a photo of Purdy, 25, to her former school, where several other teachers recognized the popular American and directed Curry to another evacuation shelter.
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Egyptian Crisis
Emilio Morenatti/AP
On January 25 2011 after a successful revolution had occurred in Tunisia, many Egyptians took to the streets protesting government corruption, unemployment, poverty as well as the country’s 30 – year autocratic rule by former President Hosini Mubarak.
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Egyptian Crisis
Did social media like Facebook and Twitter cause the revolution?
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/egypts-revolutionary-fire/
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Egyptian Crisis
Did social media like Facebook and Twitter cause the revolution?
No. But these tools did speed up the process by helping to organize the revolutionaries, transmit their message to the world and galvanize international support.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/egypts-revolutionary-fire/
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Egyptian Crisis
“In the same way that pamphlets didn’t cause the American Revolution, social media didn’t cause the Egyptian revolution,”
said Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative.
“Social media have become the pamphlets of the 21st century, a way that people who are frustrated with the status quo can organize themselves and coordinate protest, and in the case of Egypt, revolution.”
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/egypts-revolutionary-fire/
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Egyptian Crisis
“One of the things that social media does is transmission of hope across these countries,” Ali added, referring to Tunisia, Egypt and other repressed countries in the Middle East.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/egypts-revolutionary-fire/
Rafat Ali, a social media expert and founder of PaidContent
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Egyptian Crisis
Piggipedia
Collection of pictures of accused human rights violators, which is a Flickr collection of pictures of policemen, soldiers, and other officialdom.
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Egyptian Crisis-By The Numbers
• Egypt gained 632,120 new Facebook users from January-February, 2011 an increase of 12.16%
• On February 1 (the day the Internet was turned back on) Egypt gained 100,000 new Facebook users
• Globally there were 1,317,233 Egyptian related Tweets between January 24-30
• Egypt leads African nations with ~5.2M Facebook users, despite having only 6.46% of the country’s Internet population on Facebook.
• Egyptian Twitter adoption grew 10X in January
American University in Cairo
Thursday, October 27, 2011http://jeffesposito.com/2011/02/21/egypts-social-media-revolution-by-numbers/
Egyptian Crisis-By The Numbers
American University in Cairo
Thursday, October 27, 2011http://jeffesposito.com/2011/02/21/egypts-social-media-revolution-by-numbers/
Egyptian Crisis
Wael Ghonim
It generally acknowledged that Ghonim's Facebook page first sparked the protests. Titled "We Are all Khaled Said" -- it memorialized an Egyptian businessman who had been beaten to death by police after threatening to expose corruption.
Ghonim's was arrested on January 28th by Egyptian authorities and release 12 days later only added to his legend.
Middle East & North Africa Marketing Manager at Google
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Has The Internet Killed Print Journalism?
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Has The Internet Killed Print Journalism?
Thursday, October 27, 2011http://www.smartmediainnovations.com/digital-publishing-some-food-for-thought-on-traditional-journalism/
Newspaper Statistics
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What’s Killing Newspapers?
Lots of Things
Thursday, October 27, 2011Google searchbloggingcraigslist - monster.com - online adversiting
Citizen Journalism
TweetNadwa a gathering that combines both real and virtual worlds. Nadwa means ”forum” in Arabic.
Thursday, October 27, 2011http://spot.us/pitches/986-the-cloud-in-egypt-help-or-hype/updates/1108-tweet-nadwa-connects-egyptian-activists-on-and-of!ine
Citizen Journalism
http://theangryegyptian.wordpress.com/
twitter.com/Gsquare86
"Citizen journalism has the most impact when the stories get picked up by the mainstream media. Citizen journalism reaches only a tiny segment of the society,"
Thursday, October 27, 2011http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/09/how-social-media-is-keeping-the-egyptian-revolution-alive256.html
Citizen Journalism
"Transparency is a weapon against corruption. The more information there is about the span of the problem, the bigger possibility there is for a change. And when people know which police stations are corrupted, they can be prepared for that and, for example, hide video cameras and shoot incidents at the station," said Kamal Sedra, a digital activist.
Thursday, October 27, 2011http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/09/how-social-media-is-keeping-the-egyptian-revolution-alive256.html
Not All Lost
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Not All Lost
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Bottom Line
“We have to be realistic, though: new media isn’t going to stop censorship, overthrow oppressive regimes, or heal the people of Haiti alone. Social media has transformed communication, media, and the transmission of information, but it still takes people on the ground to pull people out of the rubble or to fight for freedom.”
Ben Parr - Mashable
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assignments
Blog
Online Participation - Keep it up.
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