Foreign Affairs
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Foreign Affairs LIVE: Digital Power: Social Media & Political Change
Popular protests from Tunisia and Egypt to Bahrain and Libya have shaken the Middle East's established order to its roots. Are they evidence of the political power of social media? Have the internet, Facebook, Twitter, and other innovations ushered in a revolutionary new era in global politics?
Watch the discussion with new media guru Clay Shirky, Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department, and Editor Gideon Rose. Foreign Affairs magazine hosted this...
Related topics : social media changed politics / internet social media policy
Foreign Affairs: Not Just A Magazine
Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. It is now a multiplatform media organization with a print magazine, a website, a mobile site, various apps and social media feeds, an event business, and more. Foreign Affairs is published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a non-profit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and...
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[highlight] The Roles of Social Media and Ideology in the Middle East Revolutions
Clay Shirky, Professor of New Media at New York University, the revolutions under way in the Middle East represent a new 21st century phenomenon, in which social media has enabled people to "come together around common cause without saying 'we have to all be part of one organization.'"
Related topics : social media middle east
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