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Social Media: Not Just a Revolution, but a Voice for the Silenced

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People have been silenced throughout time by media outlets, governments and authority figures who strive to keep minorities and protestors at bay. Social media may be changing that across the globe. Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. But she did have social media outlets like Twitter and YouTube.

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IREX staffer Haratounian wrongly imprisoned for spying in Iran

Forum One

While much of the US media has focused on the recent release of Roxana Saberi after being falsely accused of spying in Iran, other cases similar remain unresolved. Haratounian's family has set up a web site and invited the public to sign an appeal to Iran?s s government using your voice to help Silva regain her freedom.

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Social Media: Not Just a Revolution, but a Voice for the Silenced

Care2

People have been silenced throughout time by media outlets, governments and authority figures who strive to keep minorities and protestors at bay. Social media may be changing that across the globe. Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. But she did have social media outlets like Twitter and YouTube.

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MCON13 Live Blog: Connecting with Millennials (Azita Ardakani, Lovesocial)

NTEN

Azita didn''t grow up thinking she would start a digital media agency (because that didn''t exist). Born in Iran and at age 3 moved to Canada; now in NYC. "I Serendipity, timing, opportunity --> social media happened! But I could see that the companies and organizations I cared about could be using social media better." "I

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. YouTube is the second most active social media site in the world, followed by Twitter, Google + , LinkedIn , and Pinterest. They’ll be voice- or gesture-controlled. Social Media. There are now 2.4

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

It has “a media team, logistic team, strategic team, video clip team, pretty much dozens of different teams.” Dror Sal’ee , co-founder and VP APAC of Israeli startup Guardicore (acquired by Akamai Technologies) added that Israel’s high tech protest movement is extremely well organized.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. Difficult to compare picture-sharing to voice (not an apples-to-apples comparison), but a substantial portion of messages are picture messages and that number continues to grow as a percentage of overall messages.

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