Iran, Citizen Media and Media Attention
Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffIt’s been an interesting few days for people who study social media. As the protests over election results have continued in Iran, and Iranian authorities have prevented most mainstream journalists from reporting on events, there’s been ...
New York Times on Social Translation
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffLeslie Berlin did a great service to proponents of social translation by featuring a range of online translation efforts in her column for today’s New York Times, titled “A Web That Speaks Your Language“. Not only ...
New York Times on Social Translation
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffLeslie Berlin did a great service to proponents of social translation by featuring a range of online translation efforts in her column for today’s New York Times, titled “A Web That Speaks Your Language“. Not only ...
Unpacking “The Twitter Revolution” In Moldova
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffOn Sunday, April 5th, the governing Communist party won over 50% of the vote in Parliamentary elections. This was decidedly a surprise, as Communists had lost the last round of municipal elections, and as an ...
Unpacking “The Twitter Revolution” In Moldova
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffOn Sunday, April 5th, the governing Communist party won over 50% of the vote in Parliamentary elections. This was decidedly a surprise, as Communists had lost the last round of municipal elections, and as an ...
twittervotereport.com: Toward a More Networked Electorate
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffThis election season, we've seen communication technologies like SMS and social networking sites take a more active and more sophisticated role in politics than ever before. A recently developed website, twittervotereport.com, allows voters across the U.S. ...
Reader Report: National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments Offby Phil Mitchell One of the least talked about but most far-reaching worldchanging innovations is the development of new processes of citizen-centered democracy. These processes (such as citizen assemblies) are not just solutions to specific problems; they ...
Internet Censorship and Nose-Thumbing
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffThere’s understandable outcry about revelations that reporters covering the Olympics in Beijing will be using censored internet connections which block access to sites on sensitive topics, like human rights and Falun Gong. In classic fashion, a ...
FaceChanging, WorldTwitter, Headlines
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffBy the way, you can connect with us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2219936585&ref=ts You can follow Worldchanging's update tweets on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/Worldchanging While my personal twitter account is here: http://twitter.com/AlexSteffen and, of course, if you're not signed up for our newsletter, you're ...
Fighting dog fraud in Cameroon
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Communications and Networking, Green News | Comments OffAt a conference in Maryland - where I’m dropping in for a 24 hour visit - I met Charlie Stross, geek and sci-fi writer extraordinare, who’s responsible for the very excellent (and Hugo-nominated) “Halting State”. I’m ...