Mashable: Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest 15. October 2011
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Occupy Wall Street has an IT department. The movement’s technologists, like their park-squatting counterparts, are a decentralized group. But they’ve independently started hackathons this weekend in New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Even before the first protester showed up at Wall Street on
via Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest.Sept. 17, a group of people had started working on the movement’s technology components . The so-called Internet working group has held meetings that covered how to edit the site openly, how to run the Twitter account and what server space to use. It’s not necessarily the most organized operation, but it’s becoming more so.
Computerworld: Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online #egypt 29. January 2011
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“When countries block, we evolve,” an activist with the group We Rebuild wrote in a Twitter message on Friday.
That’s just what many Egyptians have been doing this week, as groups like We Rebuild scramble to keep the country connected to the outside world, turning to landline telephones, fax machines and even ham radio to keep information flowing in and out of the country.
via Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online – Computerworld.
Economist: Thus far and no farther 26. March 2010
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The potential—and limits—of the internet in political campaigning. The “economist” sounds very sceptical about chances an potential of New Media in the british election campaign. Although it´s possible t reach many voters, traditional mass media is able to reach far more people: 15.000 views for an election campaign website, but millions of views for TV-news. Astonishing analysis or fear of competing media?
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