Aswat
https://www.aswat.com/en/about A website which aims to offer a place for activists and reformers from the Middle East and Africa to post news and exchange viewpoints. It has a resource library of free ‘how to’ guides and training courses for activists. More interesting for researchers are the blogs which contain citizen journalism comment. Bloggers include individuals […]
Using Twitter in university research
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – A guide for academics and researchers: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/LSEPublicPolicy/pdf/Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf Published this week by the LSE Public Policy Group Topics covered include: getting started, writing styles and possible usage by academic departments.
Guardian newspaper launches new business blogs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/oct/03/guardian-new-business-blogs Economics blog – with Larry Elliott • Nils Pratley on finance • Business blog – with Jill Treanor Each contains data, stories and analysis.
WORLDbytes
http://www.worldbytes.org/ An online Citizen TV channel set up and run by the education charity WORLDwrite which seeks to encourage citizen journalism allowing local grassroots groups/ activists to post videos online, many examples of which can be viewed on the website. View a full list , for instance see this film on peoples comments on responses […]
Hacking the academy
http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/ Access the full text of a new book released by MPublishing, the publishing division of the University of Michigan Library. An interesting example of a book which was produced from crowd sourced content sent in over one week. It covers ways in which ‘the academy’ and university study can be positively transformed using new […]
The revolutions were tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
http://www.danah.org/projects/IJOC-ArabSpring/ A recently article in the International Journal of Communications examines the production and dissemination of news on Twitter during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions. The authors use these two events to discuss how Twitter plays a key role in amplifying and spreading information across the globe. This website provides information on the methodology […]
ecampaigning forum
http://www.ecampaigningforum.com/ An annual event where practitioners share advice and expertise on how to use social media in campaigning. The 2011 website http://ecflive.fairsay.com/ includes information and some presentations. Topics covered include practical case studies on campaigning from charities and lobby groups.
Future Gov Asia Pacific
http://www.futuregov.asia/pages/about/ Free online magazine serving public officials in Asia and the Middle East; includes news, events, blogs and articles on e-government and use of it by public sector. Subsections include cloud computing, e-government and use of IT by health organisations.
Meta-Activism Project
http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power. It is staffed by volunteers. Its website provides free access to its book and other case studies that cover ways in which citizens around the world are using digital technologies to push for […]
Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt
http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings. It includes a focus on press censorship, eye witness accounts from local journalists and discussion and news stories about the use of new media. All also available are chronologies of events in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Libya.
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