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We can’t live without Social Media (but only a few years ago, we’d never...

We can no longer imagine a world without Social Media; even smartphones – a novelty only 3 years ago, when proud pioneering iPhone owners were still in a minority – are now ubiquitous in the global...

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Is Social Media only for the Youth?

The category Nilo represents in her post is the youth and I understand Social Media is part of their daily life. The older generation, I belong to, experienced the transition from old to new media in...

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Case study – Social media and Iran

My last post discussed the way social media works in my every day communication and information accessing. We have also seen, thanks to Tina and Charlotte’s posts, the now-and-then aspect of social...

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How many “likes” for Social Media + Development?

Both my previous post discussed social media’s compatibility with development. Both of the posts also expressed rather optimistic stances coming to the democratising ability within social media, how it...

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Conference tweeting and blogging

Conferences are no longer complete without a hashtag. This has the advantage that, ostensibly, discussions that once might have never left the exclusivity of the conference room are given a broader...

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Tweeting for Development

I’d heard of Storify but never yet used it. Doing this assignment gave me the opportunity to take a closer look at the site that allows you to tell a story using tweets. I decided to take an hour’s...

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Media Design, Participation and Development

Nowadays we all have access to social media in all its shapes and forms.  By all we obviously assume us, the privileged North.  So who is the social media has been created for? By whom? In the pool of...

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Social media for democracy – appreciated or overestimated?

I received a food-for-thought Ted Talks clip of Evgeny Morozov from 2009, who highlights the unproblematized view of social media as an inherent democratizing commodity. Thank you  Tove Silveira...

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Social Media for NGOs in developing countries

A post on the blog Nonprofit Tech for Good provides a range of tips on Social Media use for NGOs in developing countries: 1)      tell the story in photo essay format 2)      schedule facebook updates...

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Presenting our blog

On Thursday 31 October 2013, we’ll be presenting our blog. We’ll tell you who we are, how we created the blog, the challenges we faced, and what it contains. The presentation starts at 9:50 CET, and...

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We can’t live without Social Media (but only a few years ago, we’d never...

We can no longer imagine a world without Social Media; even smartphones – a novelty only 3 years ago, when proud pioneering iPhone owners were still in a minority – are now ubiquitous in the global...

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Is Social Media only for the Youth?

[slideshow_deploy id=’199′]The category Nilo represents in her post is the youth and I understand Social Media is part of their daily life. The older generation, I belong to, experienced the transition...

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Case study – Social media and Iran

My last post discussed the way social media works in my every day communication and information accessing. We have also seen, thanks to Tina and Charlotte’s posts, the now-and-then aspect of social...

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How many “likes” for Social Media + Development?

Both my previous post discussed social media’s compatibility with development. Both of the posts also expressed rather optimistic stances coming to the democratising ability within social media, how it...

View Article

Conference tweeting and blogging

Conferences are no longer complete without a hashtag. This has the advantage that, ostensibly, discussions that once might have never left the exclusivity of the conference room are given a broader...

View Article


Tweeting for Development

I’d heard of Storify but never yet used it. Doing this assignment gave me the opportunity to take a closer look at the site that allows you to tell a story using tweets. I decided to take an hour’s...

View Article

Media Design, Participation and Development

Nowadays we all have access to social media in all its shapes and forms.  By all we obviously assume us, the privileged North.  So who is the social media has been created for? By whom? In the pool of...

View Article


Social media for democracy – appreciated or overestimated?

I received a food-for-thought Ted Talks clip of Evgeny Morozov from 2009, who highlights the unproblematized view of social media as an inherent democratizing commodity. Thank you  Tove Silveira...

View Article

Social Media for NGOs in developing countries

A post on the blog Nonprofit Tech for Good provides a range of tips on Social Media use for NGOs in developing countries: 1)      tell the story in photo essay format 2)      schedule facebook updates...

View Article

Presenting our blog

On Thursday 31 October 2013, we’ll be presenting our blog. We’ll tell you who we are, how we created the blog, the challenges we faced, and what it contains. The presentation starts at 9:50 CET, and...

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