Social Media Go to War: Rage, Rebellion and Revolution in the Age of Twitter

This new book includes a chapter co-authored by Treepon Kirdnark, an alum of our MA program, on Thailand’s Red Shirt Uprising and YouTube.  Other chapters cover social media and dissent in countries ranging from Cuba to Georgia and, of course, a number of pieces on the Arab Spring by authors such as Catherine Cassara and Lara  Lengel, Sadaf Ali and Shahira Fahmy, Elizabeth  Iskander and Mina Monir,  Naila Hamdy and Lindsey Conlin and more.

Pop-Up Newsroom Election Coverage

Pop-Up Newsroom Will Cover Election Day

Join the Pop-Up Newsroom, the temporary, virtual newsroom, by posting your election coverage (Tweets, photos, videos, audio) with the hashtag #popupvote.

 

Pop-Up Newsroom is Here!

Fourteen student journalists from four continents speaking five languages (Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Spanish and Urdu) will cover downtown Los Angeles’ car-free event, CicLAvia, Sunday Oct. 7.

Follow them at @PopUpNewsroom, popupnews.tumblr.com, and pinterest.com/popupnewsroom/

Citizen Journalism: Valuable, Useless or Dangerous?

My book is now available for pre-order on Amazon. I’m especially pleased that it features a geographical range of researchers – from Egypt to South Africa to Taiwan.

Sections include:

Part 1: Citizen Journalism: Complement or Threat to Professional Journalism?

Part 2: Citizen Journalism: Should Quality Matter?

Part 3: When Citizen Journalism Promotes a Point of View

Part 4: Participation and Access: Which Citizens’ Voices?