Wikileaks Documentary Attacks Assange, Excuses Manning Julian Assange is a villain, Bradley Manning is a hero: That is the message of We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a new documentary now showing in theaters nationwide. REPORT: Google Battling Facebook For Waze Facebook?s talks to potentially acquire satellite navigation startup Waze may have hit a … Read more
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy: New Survey Findings from Pew and the Berkman Center Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, … Read more
Muslim Brotherhood Teaches a Lesson in Elections in the Age of Twitter and Google Spreadsheets from technosociology by zeynep Shortly after the announcement that Mohamed Morsi had won Egypt?s presidential elections, political scientist Marc Lynch asks a very good question: Indeed, ex-president Hosni Mobarak had handily ?won? the ?elections? in 1987, 1993, 1999 and 2005, … Read more
How Social Media Helps Journalists Break News from Social Media Examiner by Rich Brooks Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring from …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the ?Arab Spring? and what we?ve learned about social media and protest … Read more