Tag Archives: Lebanon

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, [...]

A Secular Sunday in Lebanon

Written by jessica. Posted on April 26, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Sunday was a gorgeous day in sun and spirit. So, we also wanted to commemorate it with a roundup links to some of the stories about #leblaique and highlighted some of the most poignant observations. We’d love it if you’d post links to the Arabic stories about the march in the comments section (there’s also [...]

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 [...]

Who’s Your Social Media Guru?

Written by jessica. Posted on March 16, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , , , . 5 Comments.
Who do you want to hear from?
Most self-respecting social media experts wouldn’t think of letting themselves be called a social media guru—just listen to Mark Comerford at the recent Young Leaders Visitors Program Social Media Café earlier this month at Zico House in Beirut: Nevertheless, there are some who understand the technical and the tactical of new media better than the rest [...]

Shankaboot Premieres on the Web

Written by jessica. Posted on March 13, 2010. Filed under SMEX News. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Press kits came with USBs tagged with Shankaboot.com.
Last night, the new Arabic-language web drama Shankaboot, directed by Amin Dora and produced by Katia Saleh, premiered at Art Lounge. The series belongs to a new genre and is one of the first of its kind in the Arab world (Flying Kebab is another but it’s not in Arabic), intends to portray a lesser-known, and [...]