[liberationtech] Fwd: Twitter and Iran election

[Yosem Companys]

Hi Neema,

That is very interesting.  Sounds very similar to what the WTO
protesters put together back in 1998 (?).  It definitely would be
interesting for someone to study how that process happens from the
technical end.

If anyone knows of someone working on this topic, please let me know.

Thanks,

Yosem

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Neema Moraveji<neema at stanford.edu> wrote:
> There's more than just Twitter, too.  People abroad are setting up
> their personal computers as proxies to enable Iranians in Iran to use
> those computers to circumvent censors.  I have never heard of such a
> thing.  I an Iranian-American and am receiving lots of interesting
> related emails - it would be great to put together to study how the
> masses are appropriating social media.
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Yosem Companys<companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> fyi
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Dario Taraborelli <dario.taraborelli at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM
>> Subject: Twitter and Iran election
>>
>> What's happening right now on Twitter (in terms of sheer volume [1]
>> and use of real-time communication to fight censorship [2]) has no
>> precedent (to my knowledge) in the history of social media.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a good visualization service (similar to the one
>> mapping the US election [3]) to appreciate this?
>>
>> Dario
>>
>> [1] http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IranElection
>> [2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10265462-2.html
>> [3] http://projects.flowingdata.com/inauguration/
>>
>>
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>>
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>> Department of Sociology
>> University of Surrey
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>>
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