Posts Tagged ‘politics’

Some more perspective on the Iran protests

Great article brought to my attention by @zephoria.  Ethan Zuckerman over at the Berkman Center talks about the over emphasis of the impact of social media on the protests in Iran.  Much of the recent hype has suggested social tools like Twitter and Facebook have more or less caused the protests rather than merely serving [...]

Putting the Iran election in context: views from around the world

Interesting post on globalpost.  A lot has been said about what’s happening internally, which has given us a rather visceral, extremely valuable, but perhaps narrow view of the struggle.  Globalpost attempts to give more color to the situation by pinging various viewpoints from all over the world.  What does this election mean to people in [...]