Tag: social media
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My response to Nick Bilton on “Hey, ‘Friend,’ Do You ‘Like’ My Sad Story?”
Today, the NYT’s Nick Bilton writes: I recently “liked” a story about five people dying in an explosion in Connecticut. I didn’t actually “like” the fact that five people had died in a terrible accident. Technically, I didn’t even “like” the story — I found the reporting and writing informative and the narrative engrossing, but…
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InfoWar over Gaza
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub blog.] The information war being fought over Gaza is one of the most commented-on aspects of the current crisis – Israeli military footage, Twitter updates, Facebook groups, media interviews, blogs, the use of megaphone software like GIYUS. It’s not a new phenomenon, but the extent to which Israel’s government has made bypassing, controlling…
Sameer Padania 