Iran, citizen media and media attention
It’s been an interesting few days for people who study social media. As the protests over election results have continued in Iran, and Iranian authorities… Read More »Iran, citizen media and media attention
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Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
Arika Okrent has a thing for languages. Born in Chicago, she got good enough at Hungarian to teach in Hungary, and learned ASL while getting… Read More »Invented languages, cosmopolitan dreams
Goodbye to Bongo
Omar Bongo is dead. He died while undergoing cancer treatments in a Barcelona hospital. Can’t say I’ll be sorry to see him go. The late… Read More »Goodbye to Bongo
Local Perspectives at Beyond Broadcast 2009
The opening panel discussion at BeyondBroadcast is titled “Local Perspectives” and it invites citizen media innovators from around the world to show off their work.… Read More »Local Perspectives at Beyond Broadcast 2009
Lokman Tsui on hospitality, journalism and Global Voices
What do you choose to study when you’re a Dutch media scholar of Chinese descent? You could focus on Chinese internet filtering, a rich, provocative… Read More »Lokman Tsui on hospitality, journalism and Global Voices
New York Times on Social Translation
Leslie Berlin did a great service to proponents of social translation by featuring a range of online translation efforts in her column for today’s New… Read More »New York Times on Social Translation