My latest New Matilda column, co-written with Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull, responds to predictable charges of political bias by the Zionist lobby: Labor MP Michael Danby’s accusation of antisemitism against two Jewish writers is a false and dangerous misuse of that term, write the accused, Michael Brull and Antony Loewenstein Sometimes, people…
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Blogging the lower classes
ActionAid Australia has a new program that sends bloggers to developing countries “to give poverty a voice.” Blogging can’t just be written by the elite for the elite; others have to get a look in.
People make revolutions
I wrote before about the dangers of over-playing the significance of the web in Iran. It’s hard not to moved, though, by this Iranian blogger: I will take part in the rally tomorrow. It might become violent. Perhaps I may be one of the people who is meant to die. I am listening to all…
They blog, I blog, we all blog
The following review of my book The Blogging Revolution appears in the latest edition of Harvard University’s Nieman Reports: An Australian blogger interviews dissident bloggers worldwide, and in his book he explains why what they do matters and who is trying to stop them. By Danny Schechter I am a blogger, a media critic, and…
Don’t wait for the web to bring democracy
As Iran teeters and the Supreme Leader warns protestors, Zionists, foreigners and the media to back off – he would be comical if this wasn’t so serious – many in the West should be cautious about heralding the Twitter Revolution. As I write in my book The Blogging Revolution, new technology doesn’t on its own…
Can the West not intrude?
Jordanian blogger Hareega on the situation in Iran: Let Iranians vote for whoever they want to, and if they’re taking the streets and are going bring down Ahmadinajhad let them do it themselves.
When the power of the crowd can work
How has the Huffington Post been reporting the rapidly shifting changes in Iran? Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, sources, tips and a lot of caffeine: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Blogger forced to reveal his identity
I was interviewed before on ABC Radio’s World Today program: PETER CAVE: To some people the appeal of the internet is getting information out in the public domain without revealing where it’s come from. But that could change after a court in the United Kingdom ruled that bloggers have no right to anonymity. A policeman…
They blog what they see in front of their eyes
Harvard University’s Berkman Centre (where I gave a presentation last year on my book, The Blogging Revolution) have released a new report mapping the Arabic blogosphere. Some key findings that suggest Barack Obama will need to match his pretty words with far more than rhetoric: The one political issue that clearly concerns bloggers across the…
All we know is that the noise is growing
The latest on the crisis in Iran. Violence, state brutality, Twitter and resistance.