social media
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Spain’s Protest Movement by Danny Schechter
They have now created a political version in the form of Tarir Square type encampment in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol where a diverse mix of activists—old, young, male-female, disabled, immigrant, activists from Western Sahara, have created a beachhead for what many say is the closest this country has come to a popular and distinctive revolutionary… Continue reading
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In your Face! By William Bowles
26 May 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Facebook transforms who you are, your likes, dislikes, beliefs and fantasies, all of it into a commodity that it alone owns, 600 million intimate profiles of people like you and me Many moons ago, when the Web was still in its infancy I wrote that the way the Continue reading
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Parts 1 and 2: Max Keiser & David DeGraw: Decentralized global rebellion against neoliberal economic policies
Keiser and DeGraw discuss: the economic world war – the centrally planned neo-liberal economic aristocracy and the global decentralized rebellion taking shape against it; overcoming divide and conquer strategies; social media as a weapon; Anonymous as a powerful force of vigilante justice and the coming Empire State Rebellion. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Tyranny And Rebellion – The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
Until very recently, no system of power seemed more invincible than the corporate media. One hundred years ago, industrialisation handed a near-total monopoly of the means of mass communication to a tiny elite with the money to buy and run the printing presses and, later, TV studios. The tendency to see the future in the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 October, 2010: Unraveling the Empire of Finance / Foreclosure Fraud / Congo Genocide / Social Media / Tea Party
13 October, 2010 — Black Agenda Report News, analysis and commentary from the black left The Unraveling of the Empire of Finance Capital by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The more the Wall Street financial class dominates political affairs in the United States, the sooner they will meet destruction. By giving the banksters everything they Continue reading
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Another War Zone: Social Media in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict By Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein
It is now a truism that warfare has been extended to cyberspace. Web 2.0 technologies allow not only for almost instantaneous communication to and from the front, but also for extensive interaction between the parties to conflict and the public around the world. As the stronger party in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel is accustomed to… Continue reading
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Survey finds majority of journalists use social media sites as first port of call for research By Helena Humphrey
The founding director of a Political Management master’s degree program at the George Washington University surveyed 371 print and web journalists from September to October of last year, with the aim of establishing to what extent social media tools are used in the research and distribution of articles. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 