All social media sites are covering this breaking story: TWITTER HAS BEEN HACKED.(maybe it was only a DNS attack, but no one is sure at this point. Most headlines are reading “HACKED”) By whom? A group who calls themselves the “Iranian Cyber Army” (evidently you can e-mail them at iranian.cyber.army@gmail.com (gmail, really?) (screenshot of http://www.mowjcamp.org/,…
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I recently completing a paper on the use of social media as a backchannel in natural disasters and political action (to be posted later), and I finished reading Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. My timing, unfortunately, couldn’t have been set up better. Footage of the current protests surrounding the Iran Election are…
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