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Did the Media Overstate Twitter's Impact in Egypt?

Added 02/17/11
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Did the Media Overstate Twitter's Impact in Egypt?

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/07/Evgeny_Morozov_The_Net_Delusion Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt and author Evgeny Morozov discuss the media's obsession with the role Twitter and other social networking tools played during recent protests in Iran, Tunisia and Egypt. Morozov argues that the social media news angle was simply "low-hanging fruit" for mainstream media outlets. ----- Open Society Foundations Fellow Evgeny Morozov on his book The Net Delusion. This program was recorded on February 7, 2011. Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics. Evgeny Morozov is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He was formerly a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program. Previously, he was Director of New Media at the Prague-based NGO Transitions Online (TOL) and a columnist for the Russian newspaper Akzia. He is also on the sub-board of the Information Program of the Open Society Institute. Morozov's writings have appeared in many publications, including The Economist, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. Stephen M. Walt is Academic Dean at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he holds the Robert and Renee Belfer Professorship in International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. He was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.

Jean Camp, "Net Trust: Identification Through Social Context"

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Did the Media Overstate Twitter's Impact in Egypt?

Jean Camp, "Net Trust: Identification Through Social Context"