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.
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?
Social Media & the Arab Spring: First Looks
16 new research articles about the roles of social media and the Arab Spring have been published in the International Journal of Communication. All of the articles can be viewed for free online and are linked to below.
Of particular note is “The Revolutions Were Tweeted,” which is presented here in a very cool graphic.
Also, my paper co-authored with Sahar El Zahed, ” “I’ll Be Waiting for You Guys”: A YouTube Call to Action in the Egyptian Revolution,” which focuses on the videos created by youth activist Asmaa Mahfouz and argues that a new political media logic has formed in Egypt, is part of the collection. (See original video below.)
| The Arab Spring & the Role of ICTs| Introduction | |
| Ilhem Allagui, Johanne Kuebler |
8 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Nextopia? Beyond Revolution 2.0 | |
| Albrecht Hofheinz |
18 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Analyzing the Role of ICTs in the Tunisian and Egyptian Unrest from an Information Warfare Perspective | |
| Brett van Niekerk, Kiru Pillay, Manoj Maharaj |
11 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions | |
| Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff, Mike Ananny, Devin Gaffney, Ian Pearce, danah boyd |
31 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Overthrowing the Protest Paradigm? How The New York Times, Global Voices and Twitter Covered the Egyptian Revolution | |
| Summer Harlow, Thomas J. Johnson |
16 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| The Egyptian Experience: Sense and Nonsense of the Internet Revolution | |
| Miriyam Aouragh, Anne Alexander |
15 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| WikiRevolutions: Wikipedia as a Lens for Studying the Real-Time Formation of Collective Memories of Revolutions | |
| Michela Ferron, Paolo Massa |
20 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| “I’ll Be Waiting for You Guys”: A YouTube Call to Action in the Egyptian Revolution | |
| Melissa Wall, Sahar El Zahed |
11 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Local Knowledge and the Revolutions: A Framework for Social Media Information Flow | |
| Victoria Ann Newsom, Lara Lengel, Catherine Cassara |
10 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| “I Have Understood You”: The Co-evolution of Expression and Control on the Internet, Television and Mobile Phones During the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia | |
| Ben Wagner |
8 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Politics through Social Networks and Politics by Government Blocking: Do We Need New Rules? | |
| Rolf H. Weber |
9 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Media Ecologies, Communication Culture, and Temporal-spatial Unfolding: Three Components in a Communication Model of the Egyptian Regime Change | |
| Eike M. Rinke, Maria Röder |
13 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Digital Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Descriptive Analysis from the Tahrir Data Set | |
| Christopher Wilson, Alexandra Dunn |
25 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Extra-National Information Flows, Social Media and the 2011 Egyptian Uprising | |
| Adrienne Russell |
10 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Connecting the National and the Virtual: Can Social Media Have a Role in Institution-building After Egypt’s January 25 Uprising? | |
| Elizabeth Iskander |
13 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Reconsidering Resource Mobilization Theory | |
| Nahed Eltantawy, Julie B. Wiest |
18 pgs. |
| The Arab Spring| A Revolution of the Imagination | |
| Tarik Ahmed Elseewi |
10 pgs. |
“Sounds of Beirut” scores a Gold Medal and other grad news
Our graduate student Seth Koury has won a “Gold Medal for Excellence” at the Park City Film Music Festival for his documentary “Sounds of Beirut.” 
Seth’s documentary has been raking in awards in the last couple of months: Broadcast Education Association honorable mention and Thesis of the Year for the Journalism Department.
And there’s more good news.
Esha Momeni accepted a human rights award this weekend from the Visual Artists Guild, which is given in honor of the students killed at Tiananmen Square. Esha also accepted an award from the Feminist Majority Foundation last month for the women activists currently jailed in Iran. She appeared on a panel with feminist icon Gloria Steinem, United Farmworkers co-founder Delores Huerta and Khaled Hosseini, author of The 
Kite Runner (bootleg video coming soon). Esha will be entering the Women’s Studies doctoral program at UCLA this fall.
Anasa Sinegal has been accepted into the PhD program in Mass Comm at UNC-Chapel Hill and awarded one of their prestigious Park Fellowships. She departs for the Land ‘o Grits this summer. Shannon Sindorf was accepted into the PhD program at Colorado.
Sahar El Zahed presented her research on Western news coverage of the Gaza conflict at the “Ruptures of War” conference at the Claremont Colleges last month prompting a lively discussion.
Congratulations to our students.
Ethiopian journalists on how they view their jobs
In answer to a request for a paper I wrote about Ethiopian journalists, I’ve posted “The Westernizer, the Developer and the Azmari: Journalism Discourses in Ethiopia” on Scribd. The study is based on interviews I conducted with Ethiopian journalists about their views of the profession.
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