http://www.rahafharfoush.com/2009/06/acts-of-corporate-good-in-iranelections-pt1/ At the intersection of web culture, innovation, and creativity Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:08:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.rahafharfoush.com/2009/06/acts-of-corporate-good-in-iranelections-pt1/comment-page-1/#comment-27086 Rethink the role of social media in Iranian Election | PBRL 4405 SENIOR SEMINAR: SOCIAL MEDIA Fri, 21 May 2010 19:44:15 +0000 http://www.rahafharfoush.com/?p=624#comment-27086 [...] the role of social media in Iranian Election by Tom        As the blogger I am monitoring is enjoying sunshine in Portugal now, I have to read some of her previous [...] [...] the role of social media in Iranian Election by Tom        As the blogger I am monitoring is enjoying sunshine in Portugal now, I have to read some of her previous [...]

]]> http://www.rahafharfoush.com/2009/06/acts-of-corporate-good-in-iranelections-pt1/comment-page-1/#comment-20403 Joel Parkes Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:34 +0000 http://www.rahafharfoush.com/?p=624#comment-20403 I am inclined to be a little cynical as well. I see the Iranian administration is now using Obama's criticism as examples of the West interfering with a sovereign state. I'm sure these latest comments play well with the anti-West crowd in Iran and acts as a distraction to the violence being perpetrated by the state. Us-versus-them is an age-old political strategy and I'm wondering if social media's facilitation of protest communications can't be used as just another example of the West meddling in Iran. But I don't know if these social media companies, with an understandable promotional and commercial self-interest, really had any other choice. I am inclined to be a little cynical as well. I see the Iranian administration is now using Obama’s criticism as examples of the West interfering with a sovereign state. I’m sure these latest comments play well with the anti-West crowd in Iran and acts as a distraction to the violence being perpetrated by the state. Us-versus-them is an age-old political strategy and I’m wondering if social media’s facilitation of protest communications can’t be used as just another example of the West meddling in Iran. But I don’t know if these social media companies, with an understandable promotional and commercial self-interest, really had any other choice.

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