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World News- Technology and protest: A town crier in the global village September 2, 2010A cross-border fraternity that strives to be seen, heard and heeded NEARLY four years ago, a web-based political movement set itself the modest task of “closing the gap between the world we have and world most people everywhere want”. Calling their group Avaaz, which means “voice” in several languages, the founders aimed to reproduce globally some of the suc […]
- E-communication and society: A cyber-house divided September 2, 2010Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups—and in both realms, peacemaking is an uphill struggleIN 2007 Danah Boyd heard a white American teenager describe MySpace, the social network, as “like ghetto or whatever”. At the time, Facebook was stealing members from MySpace, but most people thought it was just a fad: […]
- Technology and protest: A town crier in the global village September 2, 2010