{"id":1455,"date":"2011-02-18T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2011-02-18T16:59:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T20:59:22","slug":"cyborgology-editors-talk-social-media-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/02\/18\/cyborgology-editors-talk-social-media-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyborgology Editors Talk Social Media in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wypr.org\/stationprogram\/maryland-morning-sheilah-kast\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mdmorn.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/mm_logo.jpg?w=238&amp;h=222\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"103\" \/>Maryland Morning<\/a> host Sheilah Kast interviewed Cyborgology editors Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey about social media&#8217;s role in the recent protests in the Middle East.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a brief synopsis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citizens of countries throughout the Middle East were  risking their  lives to air grievances against their rulers long before  Facebook  founder Mark Zuckerberg even enrolled at Harvard nine years  ago. This  year, though, they\u2019ve taken to the streets in unprecedented  numbers, and  they\u2019re using social media to organize themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22twitter+revolution%22&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a#q=%22twitter+revolution%22&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbo=u&amp;tbs=nws:1&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wn&amp;bav=on.1,or.&amp;fp=bc3757e578a738f7\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Revolution<\/a>\u201d is now being thrown around in the media. Is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/158498\/how-cyber-pragmatism-brought-down-mubarak\" target=\"_blank\">overstating it<\/a>? Or is social media fundamentally changing the dynamic between governments and their citizens?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listen to the full interview: <a href=\"http:\/\/mdmorn.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/18\/218112-social-media-in-the-middle-east\/\">http:\/\/mdmorn.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/18\/218112-social-media-in-the-middle-east\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Morning host Sheilah Kast interviewed Cyborgology editors Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey about social media&#8217;s role in the recent protests in the Middle East.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a brief synopsis: Citizens of countries throughout the Middle East were risking their lives to air grievances against their rulers long before Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg even enrolled at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9549],"tags":[234,361,10016,3334,10436,732,10434,10435,10263],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","tag-democracy","tag-egypt","tag-maryland-morning","tag-protests","tag-sheilah-kast","tag-social-media","tag-tunisia","tag-twitter-revolution","tag-wypr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}