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warbyparker: Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times. View high resolution

warbyparker:

Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.

(Reblogged from brooklynmutt)

What Does Twitter’s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression?

futurejournalismproject:

Via the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Twitter’s increasing need to remove content comes as a byproduct of its growth into new countries, with different laws that they must follow or risk that their local employees will be arrested or held in contempt, or similar sanctions. By opening offices and moving employees into other countries, Twitter increases the risks to its commitment to freedom of expression. Like all companies (and all people) Twitter is bound by the laws of the countries in which it operates, which results both in more laws to comply with and also laws that inevitably contradict one another. Twitter could have reduced its need to be the instrument of government censorship by keeping its assets and personnel within the borders of the United States, where legal protections exist like CDA 230 and the DMCA safe harbors (which do require takedowns but also give a path, albeit a lousy one, for republication).

Twitter is trying to mitigate these problems by only taking down access to content for people coming from IP addresses the country seeking to censor that content. That’s good. For now, the overall effect is less censorship rather than more censorship, since they used to take things down for all users. But people have voiced concerns that “if you build it, they will come,”—if you build a tool for state-by-state censorship, states will start to use it. We should remain vigilant against this outcome.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

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mohandasgandhi: reuters: A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said. Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries Not cool. View high resolution

mohandasgandhi:

reuters:

A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.

Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

Not cool.

(Reblogged from mohandasgandhi)

“What to do when a Trending Topic turns a worthwhile cause into a sexist joke?”

meganwest:

Here’s the story of a tweet I sent last night. Thank you to everyone who retweeted and responded. We keep each other sane.

(Reblogged from jaybushman)
The fake McDonald’s twitter account might be my favorite thing. View high resolution

The fake McDonald’s twitter account might be my favorite thing.

This Is Your Brain on Twitter - NYTimes.com

jayparkinsonmd:

“Our brains were never even designed to read. This “technology” is something that we have to train our brains to do…There is a fear by many, Mr. Keller included, that these devices will wipe out our ability to remember and force us to become dependent on the virtual world. Luckily for us humans, our brains do not work this way. Research shows that the human brain is capable of adapting to new technologies in less than a week, irrelevant of age or intellect.

The human brain evolved for over 400,000 years without reading. It was just in the last few thousand that we’ve been forced to learn a new technology. We sometimes forget that concepts as unconscious as reading, was at one point, a new technology. I wonder what the technology will be in a thousand years in humans that doesn’t exist today but becomes just as ubiquitous as reading?

(Reblogged from jayparkinsonmd)
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The moral of this story? For one thing, rumors gonna spread - and Twitter can serve as an easy vector for spreading them. But as I’ve said for a long time, Twitter can also be a place where rumors go to die.

In this particular case, a rumor perpetuated by several news sources was easily debunked by a group of people on Twitter who don’t know each other and likely will never meet each other in person.

The thing they all have in common? They’re my tweeps. My Twitter followers are smart, curious, and skeptical. And they’re generous in sharing their time and skills to help me out when I need it. Who needs a million followers on Twitter when you’ve got amazing people like these helping you out?

Andy Carvin (via soupsoup)
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If that seems like a lot of fuss over a Twitter account, you probably haven’t been following @MayorEmanuel. The profane, brilliant stream of tweets not only may be the most entertaining feed ever created, but it pushed the boundaries of the medium, making Twitter feel less like a humble platform for updating your status and more like a place where literature could happen. Never deviating too far from the reality of the race itself, @MayorEmanuel wove deep, hilarious stories. It was next-level digital political satire and caricature, but over the months the account ran, it became much more. By the end, the stream resembled an epic, allusive ode to the city of Chicago itself, yearning and lyrical.

Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel

Mostly posting this for my friend Jay Bushman, who has been using Twitter (and other platforms) to tell stories for a couple of years now.

futurejournalismproject:

Via Al Jazeera:

Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation; geeks have taken on dictators; bloggers are dissidents; and social networks have become rallying forces for social justice…

…Joining Marwan Bishara to discuss these issues are: Carl Bernstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist; Amy Goodman, the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!; Professor Emily Bell, the director of digital journalism at Columbia University; Evgeny Morozov, the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom; Professor Clay Shirky, the author of Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.

(Source: futurejournalismproject)

(Reblogged from futurejournalismproject)

Words Are a Revolution

itsalloverbabyblue:

For anyone who’s ever asked me, “Why use Twitter?” “Why do I care if you’re going to the store and talking about it online?” Go listen to Biz Stone’s interview on Fresh Air.

When you put inexpensive technology in the hands of the people, when you facilitate their usage of it - finding ways around government censorship and shutdowns; when you let people have a voice, you get revolutions.

The Federalist Papers jump started the American Revolution. Why is it so hard to see that allowing people to make their voices heard- many of who are reporting on their latest project and their cute kittens, sure - you get change. You get dialogue. You get community.

(Reblogged from itsalloverbabyblue)