June 22, 2009 Youth culture is highly visual and iconic, no doubt about it. According to Graham Brown's article, Youth in Iran, about 60% of the population in Iran is under 25, so it's no surprise that the death in the streets of 26-year old “Neda” has become iconic very, very fast. As students and global citizens rally using social media mobilization to protest the … [Read more...]
Neda: Iconic, Insta-Media Shifts Us To Visual Story Threads
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Bonnie DeVarco, catalysts, cause marketing, change agents, citizen-journalism, Collaboratory, compatriots, connective intelligence, democratic, digital humanities, Eileen Clegg, global community, green, Green revolution, hearts and minds, Humanists, iconic, interdependence, international, internet, Iran, Iranian protests, Jeff Clark, Kevin Bacon, media icons, mobilization, NEDA, neoformix, NextNow, nonviolence, online, pandemic, peace, Persian translation, PhraseNet visualization, portesters, retweets, revolution, Second-Life, Shop-Green, six degrees.org, social-media, solidarity, Students, TweetGrid, Tweetmaps, Twitter, Visual Insight, Walt Handelsman, word clouds, youth
Hope is On the Horizon When Movements Go Mainstream
April 25, 2009 I've used 'follow the money' as my rebel yell for 'why things are the way they are' and can usually sniff out the trail like a canine customs patrol. So it thrills me when the path leads to something positive, obvious, and fruitful, particularly when it's a movement gaining momentum that I embrace... Whether it's CCFC's Bay Area premiere of Consuming Kids, … [Read more...]
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