{"id":2655,"date":"2011-05-04T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2011-05-04T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:13:34","slug":"bin-ladens-death-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/05\/04\/bin-ladens-death-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Bin Laden&#8217;s Death and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/03\/business\/media\/03media.html?ref=technology\" target=\"_blank\">a great article<\/a> on how we are increasingly &#8220;Turning to Social Networks for News.&#8221; The important contrast is between traditional top-down reporting and the way information spreads virally from the bottom on social media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2656\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/05\/mashable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2656 \" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/05\/mashable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/05\/mashable.jpg 625w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/05\/mashable-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mashable found that more than half of its readers first learned of Bin Laden&#039;s death from Facebook or Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.polls.newsvine.com\/_vine\/images\/users\/600\/suzanne-choney\/6577423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"236\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter announced unprecedented sustained usage levels on Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a great article on how we are increasingly &#8220;Turning to Social Networks for News.&#8221; The important contrast is between traditional top-down reporting and the way information spreads virally from the bottom on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"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":[9950],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}