Tag Archives: Arab

SMEX Goes to PICNIC ‘09

Written by jessica. Posted on September 23, 2009. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . No comments.
PICNIC09 attendees could catch up on Tweets under the Twitter tree.
This month, SMEX was invited to speak at PICNIC ‘09, a three-day event in Amsterdam where media people, arts and architecture people, entertainment people, journalists, science folks, and a whole lot of others get together to push the edges of new ideas. Below is Mohamad’s presentation about The Arab Social Web, a panel convened by [...]

Mapping The Arabic Blogosphere – Study

Written by jessica. Posted on June 25, 2009. Filed under Participatory Media Literacy, Stories & Case Studies, Youth & Participatory Media. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
We have recently come across a study, conducted by the Berkman Research Center for Internet and Society and titled: Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere (pdf), by Bruce Elting, John Kelly, Robert Faris and John Palfrey. This study came after another study on the Iranian Blogosphere in April 2008, titled: Mapping Iran’s Online Public: Politics and Culture [...]