Watching and reporting on the police via the web

Sous-veillance: watchers socially below those who are watched, using their mobile phone people attending a demonstration in the street where policemen are beating youths can immediately take pictures of the scene & diffuse them through the web.

Lt. John Pike is a perfect example of how social media can not only chronicle brutality by [...]

How social media accelerated the uprising in Egypt

Did Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube send people out into the streets? Of course not. Did they speed up the process of protest? Absolutely.

Those who say social media is of little help in organizing are confusing the message with the transmission of the message. While social media can’t create the message, it can shape [...]

New media, social media analysis from Baekdal

Thomas Baekdal has impressed me for a while by consistently providing in-depth insight, research, and analysis on the ever-changing, continually more important world of social media and new media. He recently started Baekdal Plus, which gives you access to even more comprehensive articles, some of which are 7-10 pages long. It costs $4.99 a [...]

Track the Israel Gaza Conflict using social media

Mashable recommends using CrisisWire, WhosTalkin, and Social Mention to aggregate info on Gaza from dozens of social networking sites into one location. Remember, someone with a cell phone and a Twitter account can often get news out fast and first when no one else can. So, real-time websites like these can be invaluable.

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