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Innocents abroad

This June a passion for Iranian politics is lighting up Facebook and Twitter. The rigged election and resulting protests feel like history in the making, so the spike in interest on the web is no surprise. Yet I suspect a good number of tweeters and bloggers now tracking events had never heard of Hossein Moussavi …

June 17, 2009 – 6:06 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Social media | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

The silence of the cyberlambs

It’s taken long enough, but Clayfox has shaken off summer dreams to engage with a little edu-distopia, 2007-style. Michael L. Wesch, the Kansas State University anthropology prof who brought the YouTube-fueled world a much-referenced little primer on Web 2.0 some time back, has had his students produce a new video, this one a decidedly grim …

October 20, 2007 – 10:12 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Academia | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)