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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 [...]

Spring Cleaning, and Getting Ready to Relaunch SMEX

Written by jessica. Posted on April 24, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , , . No comments.
Startups by definition are disorganized and always trying to catch up with their vision. Social Media Exchange is no exception. Last year, we launched the Summer 2008 Social Media for Social Change project with lots of aspirations, many of which we achieved and some, which, let’s be honest, we haven’t gotten to yet. We developed a [...]

Numbers: An accounting of the Egyptian blogosphere

Written by jessica. Posted on August 5, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Our good friend Magda Abu-Fadil, the director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut, shares a link from startuparabia to a recently released report called “Egyptian Blogs: New Social Space.” The report, issued by the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), is available in Arabic. I’m wondering how the release [...]