Iran election protests harness power of Twitter, New Media

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With mainstream media over the weekend failing to satisfy the hunger for news on the protests against the Iran election results and subsequent government crackdown, it was New Media which once more came to the rescue.

Twitter has become a vital tool not only for people around the world to know what’s happening inside Iran–the hashtag #IranElection is the number one Trending Topic on Twitter as of this writing–but has been harnessed by the Iranian protesters themselves. Now Twitter users are lobbying via the hashtag #NoMaintenance to convince the microblogging site to postpone its scheduled maintenance.

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Tags: Iran, Iran elections, microblogging, New Media, twitter
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Filipino blogger-turned-legislator on role of youth and New Media in politics

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It’s already a cliche to talk about the apathy of the youth, but blogger and Philippine House of Representatives congressman Raymond “Mong” Palatino would be the first to dispute this.

Not only did Kabataan Partylist, of which he is president and top nominee, make history as the country’s first elected youth group to win a seat in Congress under the partylist system, but Palatino is also the first blogger to become a national legislator in the Philippines.

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Tags: #conass, blogging, Filipino blogger, House of Representatives, Kabataan Partylist, Mong Palatino, New Media, partylist system, philippine blogosphere, Raymond Palatino, social network, youth, youth group
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