Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project
http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by activists and the Syrian government in order to assess what is really known about them. Mashable also has a useful article on social media use in the conflict. […]
Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics. These can now be mapped more effectively using Google data explorer http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/explorer/index.html Explore and visualize key ICT indicators from 1960 to 2011 for about 200 economies worldwide by creating line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts.
Technology and protest
Tell Dave protests: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/britains-web-monitoring-plan-draws-comparisons-to-1984-and-kafka/2012/04/02/gIQAbNB5qS_blog.html This month, to protest against new internet monitoring plans, twitter users utilised hashtag #TellDaveEverything. The protest took the form of listing mundane events that they thought they should tell the prime minister about to make the point that the new laws would ‘snoop into everything’. Coverage from CBC Canada captured examples. There […]
Internet enemies report 2012
Reporters without Borders has publishes the Internet Enemies 2012 Report http://march12.rsf.org/en/#ccenemies This provides rankings and information on nations that censor internet access. Other useful sites on this topic: The Ifex international Freedom of Expression Exchange http://www.ifex.org/ is a good starting point; it aims to rapidly disseminate news and information about freedom of expression violations around the […]
Voter behaviour and the Internet
How the internet is changing voter behaviour; see this recent Google blog post: http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-poll-how-web-is-connecting-voters.html
2012twit
http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets. There is also an interesting blog http://140elect.com/ with coverage of twitter tools and metrics. Currently it is covering controversy over the campaign to promote a minor candidate by retweeting. See […]
Stream Congress and Capitol Words
http://streamcongress.com/chrome A tool from the Sunlight foundation that combines in one web based application Tweets, YouTube videos and floor updates from members of Congress, making them into a single customized news feed. Instructions given on the website. Note usage requires Google Chrome to be installed. Also relaunched by the same group Capitol words. http://capitolwords.org/ Get data […]
Politics twitter feeds
Politicker USA http://www.politickerusa.com/ Good directory of twitter feeds from politicians, parties and USA presidential candidates. Follow them all in one place. Other good directories. Tweetminister http://tweetminster.co.uk/pages/about find UK MPs. Tweetcongress (USA) http://tweetcongress.org/
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Internet and news media
How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/tablet A report from the Pew Research Centre for Excellence in Journalism. Focuses on the USA. The Pew site is also a good source of information on the impact of the internet on the media. They have a weekly New Media index. […]
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