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Tibetans Use the Internet...

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Last week hundreds of Tibetan monks took to the streets in and near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to protest Chinese rule. Although the heavily censored Chinese media refused to cover the story, both Tibetans and foreign tourists used the Internet to get the news out. cell phone image of protests published on the site of a Tibetan rights NGO based in India According to the Vancouver Sun, “Amateur cellphone photos and video clips showing what were described as confrontations (Leer más)
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Viral Video for Obama: Yes...

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A recent video made by some celebs for Obama.  Certainly elegant, hopefully inspirationl (of course, I was already inspired before I saw it).  This version on the video has been viewed over 500,000 times and it was posted 2 days ago.If you are an American citizen and a resident of any of the following states, please vote in your state primary on Tuesday, February 5 (Super Duper Tuesday).  Particularly for the Democrats, the race between the presidential candidates is very (Leer más)
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Can Activists Trust YouTube?

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In late November, Egyptian activist Wael Abbas' YouTube account was suspended due to videos of torture which he had posted. Though his account was re-activated a few days later, all his videos had been removed. YouTube's side of the story is that Abbas had violated their terms of use by posting videos of "graphic or gratuitous violence" (many of Abbas' video depict police torture, including sodomy. ) However, other videos, of police brutality, demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins and election irregularities were (Leer más)
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Semiotic Democracy on...

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post that not many people read about semiotic democracy, the defining of culture by ordinary people who reinterpret and disseminate their own interpretations about what cultural elements. Yeah, it was really theoretical. Maybe it was even boring. Well, these two videos provide an example that I think really drives home what semiotic democracy is all about. This is a video made a crazed fan of Britney Spears defending her against her detractors. (Leer más)
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Semiotic Democracy and Rayt

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The theory of semiotic democracy states that ordinary people can re-define and create culture. We are not merely the passive receptacles of judgements, beliefs, and traditions. We can re-work these semiotics (signs) and in so doing re-work culture. screenshot of Rayt comments at the top of www.whitehouse.gov: One thousand comments on the White House web site is like one thousand people with megaphones knocking on White House door. In the broadcast age of radio, television, and newspapers it was not (Leer más)
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Who's afraid of a curveball...

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Why can't today's candidates handle a curveball question? (see full video here) Tonight, beginning at 7pm EST, CNN will broadcast a new kind of debate in which people send in their questions to presidential candidates as YouTube videos. Here comes the new debate, same as the old debate. The reason that this debate structure isn't really so revolutionary is that CNN will still be picking the questions, continuing a style of "filtered" debates that make us forget what a real (Leer más)
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From Egypt: "A Call to...

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Abdel-Monem Mahmoud is a prolific Egyptian blogger. Though an outspoken member of the Muslim Brotherhood, his message of greater political freedoms for all Egyptians has made him an admired figure across the political spectrum. He has been imprisoned by the Mubarak regime several times and was once tortured while in police custody. His most recent arrested in mid-April of this year resulted in a global Free Monem campaign. After approximately six weeks in jail, Monem was released from prision and (Leer más)
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The Cute Cat Theory of...

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"Just one moment, let me come over there and help you with your e-petition." I like to pay credit where credit is due. Not many people are treating digital activism with the rigor of deep intellectual analysis, so I'd like to point out Ethan Zuckerman's contribution to this area. Ethan, co-founder of Geek Corps and Global Voices, is also the originator of the Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism. This theory states that while many Web 2.0 tools were created (Leer más)