Tag Archives: blogging

What a Difference a Year Makes

Written by jessica. Posted on April 30, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , . 4 Comments.
A blogger fills out the form for permission to cover the elections and enter the polling station.
For Lebanon’s parliamentary elections in June 2009, citizen media hadn’t quite achieved the critical mass it needed to mobilize. True, the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) mobilized more than 2,000 SMS-enabled monitors and Sharek961 implemented the first instance of the crowdsourced crisis-mapping application Ushahidi, but beyond these interventions and a handful of existing bloggers, [...]

CC-Licensed Post #3: Que pensez-vous des blogs?, via Carpe Diem and Nawaat.org

Written by jessica. Posted on April 3, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , . No comments.
On March 27, blogger Carpe Diem posted analysis of two polls that had been published in the Tunisian newspaper Le Temps. Carpe Diem (hereafter CD) is a member of Nawaat, a trilingual Tunisian collective blog chock-full with coverage of news and politics and rich multimedia content (click on the Nawaat 2.0 Hub in the [...]

Campaign to Promote Blogging for Political Change

Written by jessica. Posted on April 1, 2010. Filed under Lebanese Elections, Participatory Media Literacy, Strategy & Technics, Youth & Participatory Media. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
A banner ad on Trella.org encouraging people to open blogs.
The following is a station identification break from our CC-licensed posts: In his latest YouTube video, Imad Bazzi is promoting his blogging platform Trella.org by highlighting the potential of social media to effect political change in Lebanon. Here’s the video, which starts with a fade in to a grid of faces familiar in Lebanese politics and background [...]

CC-Licensed Post #2: Time Travel to Jeddah, via Roba Al-Assi

Written by jessica. Posted on March 31, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , . 1 Comment.
How were they so cool when there wasn’t any Internet to keep track of trends is what I can’t stop thinking about. —Roba Al-Assi
I don’t know Roba Al-Assi, but I started hearing her voice during ArabNet. She was one of the bloggers covering the event. But I first got wind of her wit on Twitter at @robaassi, where her current avatar is a pair of red Converse sneakers, remixed to look like smiley faces. I can’t remember exactly [...]

CC-Licensed Post: Blogger Jou3an Intimidated in Lebanon, via Lebanese NightS

Written by jessica. Posted on March 30, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , . No comments.
Khodor Salameh was told to stop criticizing the president on his blog Jou3an.
Today is our first post in what we hope is an ongoing series that will feature content from blogs and elsewhere licensed under Creative Commons. We tend to use CC-licensed visuals more than text, so we want to experiment with republishing posts as a way of both extending our online communities and making the [...]