WebEcology Study on Tweets in the Iran
Congratulations to the Berkman-affiliated WebEcology project on their near-instant empirical study of tweets on the Iran election. They’ve tracked more than 2 million Tweets over the past 18 days.
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NYT story on Iran Elections and Technology, with Linkage to Green Dam
The New York Times’ Brian Stelter and Brad Stone have a very thoughtful piece in the paper today about the changing role of censorship in an Internet age, with references to ONI work. The final point, made in the story by Ethan Zuckerman, draws an appropriate connection to the Green Dam story in China from … Read more
ONI Releases New Iran Study
We at the OpenNet Initiative have released our 2009 study of Internet censorship in Iran, including new data from our most recent rounds of testing.
Internet & Democracy: China, Iran, the Arabic Blogosphere
These are heady days for the study of Internet and its relationship to the practice of politics and the struggles over democratic decision-making. Three stories — in China, in Iran, and throughout the Arabic-speaking world — make a powerful case for the deepening relevance of the use of new technologies by citizens to the balance … Read more