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Can Social Media Create and Spread Revolution?

Care2

Similar discussions surfaced last year during Iran’s Green Revolution, when many people on social media overlaid a green shade to their avatars and profile pictures to show their solidarity with the people of Iran. The Iran related hashtags also trended on Twitter.

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To Dubai on an Emirates Airbus 380

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

When I got up, I hung out in the bar taking pictures (of course). Flying down the Persian Gulf, alongside Iran's coast, we arrived in Dubai. My full set of pictures are on Flickr: Dubai, UAE, Oman and Airbus 380 - a set on Flickr The experience was wonderful, although I must admit I slept soundly for at least eight hours.

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The Revolution is Twitterfied

Forum One

Here's just a taste of the thousands of pages being leveraged in this fight: Mousavi's Flickrstream: Images on Boston's the Big Picture. Protest Iran Election. Katrin Verclas' Twitterfeed - actively amplifying the news out of Iran. Right now the world is watching the next level of emergent social media and citizen engagement.

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Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior

AFP Blog

Mobile Citizen Journalism: The Phone As Global Equalizer « MobileBehavior: "iran-mobile-citizenThe Iranian crisis put Twitter in the spotlight as an organizational tool showcasing how the online world could be used to communicate and unite people, despite government censorship.

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

Take a picture at our Booth 217 using our #TechedUp sign. Take a picture at TechSoup Booth 217 using the #TechedUp sign. Take a picture at TechSoup Booth 217 using the #TechedUp sign. This Sweepstakes is void for organizations in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria ("U.S. This is a $600 market value!

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. In Iran we’ve seen it used to get out information and resist censorship but have also seen it used by the government to alter a mobile phone system and monitoring calls. Technology is amoral – it doesn’t care.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

You get her picture. Well, I'm looking at the picture of one them, Honorata, who is one of my best teachers in this world and a hero for me. I grew up in Iraq during Saddam's time, and during the time in which we had the war with Iran. You get her letters. You get to exchange as many letters as you want with her.