Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall
AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street and sends Dow plunging
Market recovers after hackers tweeted from the official AP feed that two explosions had hit the White House
–> the idea of progress / the press / the 4th power
–> places and forms of power : the Dow Jones
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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Twitter is 5 years old !
Twitter now has 200 million users, including tech luminaries, celebrities and the president of the United States. It started off slowly. What began as an experiment in “microblogging” — no more than 140 characters — has become a cultural landmark.
What about you ?
Are you on Twitter ?
Tags: internet, social networking, social networks, Twitter
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Grieving on Facebook: How the Site Helps People
While social networking has brought together long-lost friends and rekindled many an old flame, Facebook has evolved to fill yet another role — an outlet for grieving. People the world over can post messages, photos and videos, and specialized sites offer interactive forums in which the bereft can chat with therapists and with one another. Calmly and quietly, the Web has put grievers in touch with all sorts of people who can help support them through the pain
The Open to Hope Foundation recently expanded its online channels to include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. “People initially come to blog on the site as strangers, and they start to get to know each other,” she says. “They form strong friendships based on their experiences and become part of a virtual Internet family.”
Horsley and other experts think that sites like Facebook are helping people become more open about grieving. Kids who publicize their lives online are not afraid to show vulnerability and share their feelings. “The younger generation is setting the stage for a new model of grieving,” says Horsley.
Facebook already hosts thousands of memorialized accounts of deceased users so their friends and family can continue to post photos and comments. Grieving members also use their own profiles as an outlet not only to announce deaths and funeral arrangements, but to keep talking about how much they miss the people who have passed away. “We used to believe that closure is what we needed to move on,” says Horsley. But as her colleague Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer stresses, “Closure is for bank accounts, not for love accounts.”
Facebook helped my mom get through the holidays this year. She needed support from everyone who knew and loved the family members she’d lost in rapid succession. She told me that it’s easier for her to open up and express her grief in a Facebook message and that many of these messages led to phone calls and even in-person meetings. Nothing will take away the sadness of losing her parents and brother, but speaking to friends and connecting with others who are grieving is helping my mom realize she isn’t alone.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1951114,00.html#ixzz0c8sXD9Ud
Tags: death, Facebook, grieving, social networking, social networks
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Are you a Facebook addict ?
Well, you’re not the only one 
Watch this funny video !
Tags: addicted, addiction, Facebook, internet, Internet addict, new technologies, social networking, social networks
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Shut out by the near totalitarian powers of the Islamic republic, the mainstream media tracked the stream of consciousness produced by new media. Some of the material is powerful, even indelible.
Particularly haunting is the 40-second YouTube video that shows a young woman, wearing jeans but otherwise dressed conservatively, suddenly falling to the sidewalk, shot in the heart. Her eyes turn to what must be a cell-phone camera, wide and shocked and dying as we stare at her. Men rush to her side and try to stanch the wound, but blood trickles from her mouth as an older man — later described as her father — cries and cries. Hours after the video surfaced, people on Twitter said she had not been part of the demonstration at all. Just a bystander.
By the end of the day, the Tweets had given her a name: Neda, which means “the voice” or “the call” in Farsi.
But who shot her? A soldier? A member of the notorious Basij, the volunteer militia that supports President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Were they aiming at her? Could this have been an accident or a random act of violence?
read more about it here
Tags: in the news, Iran, media, new technologies, news, social networking, social networks, Twitter
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
This article deals with the links between political revolutions and communication tools.
Social networking, a distinctly 21st-century phenomenon, has already been credited with aiding protests from the Republic of Georgia to Egypt to Iceland.
Iran : the “Twitter Revolution” ?
Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting world opinion. As the Iranian government restricts journalists’ access to events, the protesters have used Twitter’s agile communication system to direct the public and journalists alike to video, photographs and written material related to the protests. (As has become established custom on Twitter, users have agreed to mark, or “tag,” each of their tweets with the same bit of type — #IranElection — so that users can find them more easily). So maybe there was no Twitter Revolution. But over the last week, we learned a few lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of a technology that is less than three years old and is experiencing explosive growth.
read more about it here
Tags: in the news, Iran, new technologies, news, revolution, social networking, social networks, Twitter
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, new social research suggests.
Read more about it here.
Tags: Facebook, Friends, friendship, internet, social networking, social networks
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