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Experts on Iran who have monitored the channel’s programming on the Internet say it has succeeded in a difficult task, giving a tempered account of developments that have been deeply divisive among Iranians
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The history of rock writing begins around 1966 when, with what was once mere "pop" being taken seriously, the American writer Paul Williams published a journal-cum-fanzine titled Crawdaddy, which aimed to bring to rock music the kind of cerebral writing long devoted to folk and jazz. Other currents were swirling around the more educated bits of the US counterculture, among them the expressive precedents set by the Beats and the possibilities suggested by New Journalism.
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June 29, 2009
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June 26, 2009
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David Schlesinger talks to IOC about the new realities of media: the only path is to embrace the change and embrace the new. Longing for the ways of the past will not work.
We in the traditional media and you in the IOC must concentrate our efforts on defining and developing that which really adds value.
That means understanding what really can be exclusive and what really is insightful.
It means truly exploiting real expertise.It means, to my earlier point, using all the multimedia tools available and all the smart multimedia journalists to provide a package so much stronger than any one individual strand.
It means working with the mobile phone and digital camera and social media-enabled public and not against them.
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June 25, 2009
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Marc ambinder - excellent post suggesting the panoply of sources we have about Iran as an intelligence service to the masses.
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Nieman verdict on Guardian crowdsourcing experiment on MPs expenses
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June 24, 2009
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At one time, authoritarian regimes could draw a shroud around the events in their countries by simply snipping the long-distance phone lines and restricting a few foreigners. But this is the new arena of censorship in the 21st century, a world where cellphone cameras, Twitter accounts and all the trappings of the World Wide Web have changed the ancient calculus of how much power governments actually have to sequester their nations from the eyes of the world and make it difficult for their own people to gather, dissent and rebel.
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Graph of internet filtering in Iran
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June 23, 2009
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Story behind the kidnap and escape of NYT reporter
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June 22, 2009
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Review of live blogging and running commentaries on breaking news, with recommendations
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The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
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The urban, middle-class youngsters might not like the rules imposed on them by the clerics who run their country, but they have learned how to live with them. After all, 60 per cent of the population has never known any Iran other than the 30-year-old Islamic republic.
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The mob may be an evil, but even in the 21st century it may be a democratic necessity.
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"There is, however, one thing our governments can and should do, without needing to say anything in direct relation to the authorities in Iran. This is to maintain and enhance the 21st-century global information infrastructure which allows Iranians – whichever candidate they support – to keep in touch with each other and to find out what is really happening in their own country. "
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"The overriding purpose of the Iraq inquiry announced by Gordon Brown last week is to restore public confidence in governmental decision-making. To achieve this, it needs to be conducted by independent individuals who reflect a range of views necessary to address the issues and in a politically balanced way."
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boinbboing aggregation of sites and analysis re Iran
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Biases and social media - One of the reasons MSM outlets are so focused on social media is that they’re not able to deploy reporters to cover these protests. In some cases, the majority of reporting from the ground is coming from social media. It’s worth asking what the biases might be in amplifying those social media reports.
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Roger Cohen on Twitter, Iran and lessons thereof
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June 21, 2009
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hile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
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Berkman Center team on limitations of Twitter as political tool - and strengths of the internet.
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June 20, 2009
June 17, 2009
Iran: "Netwar"
A review of the "Netwar" going on over the Iran protests, from BBC Monitoring.
Iranian elections spark "netwar"
Media feature by BBC Monitoring on 17 June
Online supporters of the defeated presidential Iranian candidate Mir-Hoseyn Musavi have been engaging in a carefully orchestrated "netwar" against pro-government websites as the Tehran authorities tighten their grip on both the mass media and the internet.
Iranians have been actively blogging and posting to Facebook and YouTube images and videos of protests both for and against the re-election of Mahmud Ahmadinezhad for another four-year term.
Activists using Twitter accounts have been urging supporters to use simple hacking tools to flood pro-government websites and stop them from loading.
Note to hackers
Using hacking tools such as BWraep, users can target websites and overload them with requests for images and web pages, which exhausts bandwidth capacity and results in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) error message.
Some government ministry websites, including leader.ir, Ahmadinezhad.ir, and iribnews.ir, were reported to have been brought down using DDoS attacks.
Observations of Twitter streams indicate that these attacks have been encouraged throughout internet social networking communities partly to show frustration of Iranians at the contested re-election of President Ahmadinezhad, which some alleged was fraudulent, from a sense of excitement and "getting caught up in the flow" of things, and partly also in retaliation to the brief closures of some pro-reformist websites on 15 June.
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