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New search capabilities for Twitter: Hope it’s not all business as usual!

J August 2009, at 16:40 pm Digital Activism

At long last, Twitter is allowing for (at least a little) location-aware

capabilities.

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“Developers will be able to access this new geolocation feature early which means it will most likely be available on your app of choice before it is available on Twitter’s Web site. Later, we will add it to our mobile Web [...]

August 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Digital Activism | View Comments

DigiActive Post: Iranian elections, Information Passing and Twitter

J June 2009, at 19:32 pm DigiActive

Iranian elections, Twitter, and information flow: We are all becoming a larger part of the information dissemination mechanisms that were once reserved for formal media channels. DigiActive has reported many instances of citizen journalism, on-the-ground reporting and information gathering, but now we’re talking about the addition of a process of broader dissemination.

June 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: DigiActive, Digital Activism, Technology, new media | View Comments

So now TIME says Twitter will change the world?

J June 2009, at 8:33 am Technology

TIME didn’t like Twitter in March. Now it’s going to change our lives.

June 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Technology, new media | View Comments

Defining Twitter when you need to

J May 2009, at 10:56 am Digital Activism

While defining social media tools can be tedious and sometimes pointless, there are certain times when recognizing the functional differences between each tool is very valuable.

May 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Digital Activism, new media | View Comments

Pop!Tech post: DigiActive and social tools for social change

J April 2009, at 19:58 pm Digital Activism

A write up on digital activism and DigiActive as an organization.

In recent months, there’s been a marked increase in the mentions of how social media tools have been used around the world to enhance social activism either on a small scale, such as campaigning to free locally-jailed individuals, as was the case with “Free Jestina [...]

April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Digital Activism, Pop!Tech, Technology | View Comments

DigiActive Post: Moldovan Protests – Was it really a “Twitter Revolution”?

J April 2009, at 20:18 pm DigiActive

A synopsis of the social media impact on the protests in Moldova that occurred in early April 2009.

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/creepysleepy/3429118253/

Since Tuesday’s protests and riots in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, there has been much analysis on how this group of protesters was formed.  Initial reports focused primarily on the use of Twitter, while paying scant [...]

April 10th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: DigiActive | View Comments

DigiActive Post: Effective use of Twitter and hashtags during Hurricane Gustav

J September 2008, at 21:06 pm DigiActive

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As Hurricane Gustav threatened the New Orleans area last week, citizens found new ways to update the public on how things were developing on the ground.  In an attempt to decrease some of the chaos that occurred during Hurricane Katrina, Twitter users from the region mobilized themselves to offer a way not only of quickly [...]

September 4th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: DigiActive | View Comments