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Presentation Announcement

by Kate Calle on January 22, 2010

in Papers

This Tuesday, I will be making a presentation about the use of Twitter throughout the Iranian Election Protests and the value of Twitter as a tactic to sustain contentious activity.  You are welcome to check out my Presentation and come to the Mobile Applications and Social Media Conference (http://mobsoc.org/) on January 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM [...]

The Internet and Transnational Protests

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

Paul Almeida and Mark Lichbach explain in To the Internet, From the Internet: Comparative Media Coverage of Transnational Protests the importance of both conventional media sources and activist-based web sources when researching transnational movements.  The authors compare activist-based web sources to local, national, and international conventional news sources (250).  In the article, the authors compare [...]

First Post

by Kate Calle on May 29, 2008

in Ramblings

Due to the internet, we have entered into a whole new world. Information is at our fingertips and can be processed in seconds. Ideas are able to be massively spread in an instant with the click of a mouse. Unfortunately, not all countries or cultures are technologically advanced. The poor are [...]