The main protagonists of the recent events in the Arab world in the countries of North Africa that overlooks the Mediterranean are the Internet and social networking. Through the Internet the first citizens of Tunisia and Egypt were then kept in touch and have done since their revolt against the previous regimes.
For this reason the Mubarak regime has made an unprecedented choice: to disconnect from the Internet Egypt. On each of Tunisia was released in an ebook these days quite "instant" titoloSettanta km from Italy. Tunisia 2011: Revolt of Jasmine Quintadicopertina made by a digital publishing company founded in May 2010.
The digital book attempts to tell what has happened in recent days on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, what originated the popular revolts that are flashing in Egypt and Tunisia have led to the flight of President Ben Ali and what role they played social media in the flow of events.
The story of the creation of ebooks is a real epic of digital journalism of the times of social media. I think it was the day before the fall of Ben Ali, January 14. We started looking for answers, weaving connections. Through Twitter and online groups have begun to contact blogger, ask, suggest.
In two nights we have found the essential collaborators: Global Voices, an experiment in participatory journalism, citizen-based media and targeted to raise voices and opinions from information often forgotten traditional, which has a particular focus on developing countries, violation of human rights, social justice, protection of minorities, respect for freedom of expression, digital divide, migrants and migration.
It argues that meetings and public events to inform and raise awareness. Next to them Tekaya Mehdi, a contemporary historian, close to the themes of media activism, which has helped us build a framework consisting of a dozen cards history, related to current events. Then he went on to write, compare, verify.
Link to cool videos and other important material, create a structure for a text that could be 'navigable' as a website and, if desired, we can update with ease. We have spent 10 more days, and then another 3 to scan the pages and everything, with Fabrizio pulling accidents for the correct display of Arabic script ...
Seventy kilometers from Italy is available in various sizes with a Creative Commons license, the price of € 3.49. 50% of the proceeds of the sale, subject to management fees, will support the activities of the Global Voices.
For this reason the Mubarak regime has made an unprecedented choice: to disconnect from the Internet Egypt. On each of Tunisia was released in an ebook these days quite "instant" titoloSettanta km from Italy. Tunisia 2011: Revolt of Jasmine Quintadicopertina made by a digital publishing company founded in May 2010.
The digital book attempts to tell what has happened in recent days on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, what originated the popular revolts that are flashing in Egypt and Tunisia have led to the flight of President Ben Ali and what role they played social media in the flow of events.
The story of the creation of ebooks is a real epic of digital journalism of the times of social media. I think it was the day before the fall of Ben Ali, January 14. We started looking for answers, weaving connections. Through Twitter and online groups have begun to contact blogger, ask, suggest.
In two nights we have found the essential collaborators: Global Voices, an experiment in participatory journalism, citizen-based media and targeted to raise voices and opinions from information often forgotten traditional, which has a particular focus on developing countries, violation of human rights, social justice, protection of minorities, respect for freedom of expression, digital divide, migrants and migration.
It argues that meetings and public events to inform and raise awareness. Next to them Tekaya Mehdi, a contemporary historian, close to the themes of media activism, which has helped us build a framework consisting of a dozen cards history, related to current events. Then he went on to write, compare, verify.
Link to cool videos and other important material, create a structure for a text that could be 'navigable' as a website and, if desired, we can update with ease. We have spent 10 more days, and then another 3 to scan the pages and everything, with Fabrizio pulling accidents for the correct display of Arabic script ...
Seventy kilometers from Italy is available in various sizes with a Creative Commons license, the price of € 3.49. 50% of the proceeds of the sale, subject to management fees, will support the activities of the Global Voices.
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