Tag: cellphone
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The Rise of the Working-Class Network Society…
I had a fantastic and energising talk with my old Panos London colleague Murali Shanmugavelan just now, during which he urged me to read Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Here are some extracts of that book, via Google. Just skimming the first few pages,…
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Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it…
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China: Videos emerge of clashes between police and students in Jiangxi
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hot on the heels of the Chinese government’s claim of a 22.1% reduction in “mass incidents” (read “protests”), here’s some more video of “mass incidents” from China, in case you missed this portion of John Kennedy’s latest Beijing bulletin: Backing up to China…
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USA: Video-sharing places L.A.’s police in the spotlight
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Hop over to Technorati right now and you’ll see that six out of the top fifteen videos being linked to by bloggers show the same incident – University of California police officers using a taser gun on an Iranian-American student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, in…
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China: Government’s video-censorship foiled
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors…
Sameer Padania 