Monthly Archives: October 2012

The article The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions is an interesting article that helps explain the role that social media (Twitter specifically) played in the Arab Spring and how it became an invaluable … Continue reading →

The excerpt from This Machine Kills Secretsprovides an interesting view into Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s attempts to create a truly anonymous version of WikiLeaks. It was written by Andy Greenberg, who is a technology, privacy, and information security reporter who has a … Continue reading →

When it comes to writing geared towards online publication, I never knew that I would have to so dramatically alter my style to conform to the demands that the online world wants. The article “Writing Style for Print vs. Web” … Continue reading →

The article “Wikileaks and the Unmasking of the Global System” provides an interesting insight as to how Wikileaks and social media started worldwide revolutions and how those movements evolved. Wikileaks is described as a non-profit organization that specializes in leaking … Continue reading →

Henry Jenkins is currently the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at USC. However, the article was written during the time he spent at MIT, where he was the  director of the Comparative Media Studies Program. Some of the main … Continue reading →

The article “White Flight in Networked Publics?” takes an interesting view on the divisions between users of MySpace and users of Facebook. It was written by Dr. Danah Boyd, who is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, among other places, … Continue reading →