June 2009

The Daily Dish

With text messaging and phone service cut off by the government, Iranian citizens re-purposed a number of technologies, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr to communicate with each other, and to report to the outside world.  (The green words above are translations of tweet’s posted on The Daily Dish.) On Charlie Rose’s June 17th program Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard described this incredible phenomenon as “an amazing amount of improvisation going on, on both sides… read more…