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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 [...]

Resources used in the 2009 Iranian Election Protests

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

The 2009 Iranian election protests used moral, cultural, socio-organizational, human, and material resources in order to sustain the movement. Edwards and McCarth explain that there are various resources that social movements benefit from: 1) moral; 2) cultural; 3) socio-organizational; 4) human; and, 5) material.
Moral resources can provide legitimacy, solidarity support, sympathetic support, and celebrity (125).  [...]

Iran… Threat?

by Kate Calle on January 10, 2009

in Ramblings

Attention President Elect Obama and all Elected Officials:  Please stop pretending Israel is under any threat.  Israel was not a threat when Egypt united with with Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria during the Six Day war.  The US has made sure that it arms Middle Eastern governments with arms that are a decade older than that [...]