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No.4 《衝突的一天》Clash (اشتباك) ★★★★☆ 埃及、法國、德國│2016│97min
把囚車想像成太空船，就像是電影《地心引力 Gravity》有重力版本，還時不時有隕石攻擊～
以2013年茉莉花革命後期為背景，一場流血衝突示威遊行，兩個敵對陣營軍政府支持者、穆斯林兄弟會和國際媒體通通被關在一起，狹小的車體充斥著熱氣怒氣和催淚瓦斯，將一整天的劍拔弩張與壓抑煎熬壓縮在一個半小時，簡短卻強大到讓我坐立非常難安、完全無法喘息。
P.S MB 穆兄會的組織動員力令人咋舌呀！
@Cairo, Egypt
24 US gov twitters have set up ‘rogue’ sites after Trump Administration shuts down all communication between them and the public
Rogue One? More like Rogue 24 and counting....
At least 24 Twitter accounts claiming to be posting unofficially for federal agencies sprouted like mushrooms overnight following an isolated incident in which a former employee of the National Park Service took over one of its Twitter accounts and posted four tweets about climate change on Tuesday.
The Badlands, South Dakota, National Park tweets were promptly deleted but copycats soon followed. One such account, @AltNatParkSer, claiming to be the unofficial “Resistance” team of U.S. National Park Service amassed nearly 700,000 in less than 24 hours. Seven hundred thousand!
Before you log onto Twitter and follow these accounts, there’s something you should know: There is no proof that these so-called “rogue” accounts are actually run by employees or members of the agencies they claim to represent.
Call us buzzkills, but we’re journalists.
And while their authenticity is suspect, no one questions their popularity.
Rogue Twitter accounts are fun, but gov't employees and scientists are very afraid of being fired if they speak out & share facts. #resist
The tweets — mostly about climate change science and free speech — are usually accompanied with the hashtag #resist, a reference to widespread outrage toward President Donald Trump’s gag order on federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Some accounts are more popular than others and some tweets have gone viral. But the idea that federal employees inside the agencies have gone “rogue” has captured users’ imagination, regardless of their authenticity.
go to link to see rouge sites such as Rogue NASA,
Social Media Is A Game Changer
Twitter Revolution? By Henry Jenkins dwells on the idea that social networking sites have become the new revolution to what is and isn’t in the public’s eye. He used an example of the Iranian elections in 2009, which sparked a global response on Twitter due to the prominence of the protest. Another example Jenkins used was the 2011 US protest against the Wisconsin governor. He goes on to say that the use of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook is seen as a game changer and used as a tool for political change. This article really stuck with me because I feel that social media has definitely changed the way we grasp mainstream media and politics. After reading this article it reminded me of the disheartening Paris attacks that occurred on November 13, 2015, which gained worldwide attention. Some people were offended that Paris was gaining so much attention with flag filters and #PrayForParis hashtags leaving other countries disregarded. Although it’s sad and shameful to be having a debate on death, it made a bunch of people angry that social media was spreading love and prayers for the victims of Paris but not other places of the world. There was a trending hashtag on Twitter later that week called #PrayForBeirut? (with the question mark) because a day before the Paris attacks, 43 people died in Lebanon due to a suicide bombing but it was completely overlooked. Many people questioned and pointed out the lack of support for other countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Kenya and Iraq etc. I definitely agree with Jenkins’ viewpoint on how social media is becoming the new revolution and changing the way we grasp onto things especially politics and news.
Let’s talk about social media. When do we cross the line between sharing (and getting all the benefits of talking about personal experiences) and oversharing - putting ourselves in harm’s way, or just being irrelevant?
Fuck tony abbot!
#VivaLaOzRevolution
Let's start a Twitter revolution.
Down with tony!
Twitter Revolution: Week 9
Is Twitter the newest strategy for political gain and collaboration? “Without Twitter the people of Iran would not have felt empowered and confident to stand up for freedom and democracy,” Mark Pfeifle, former national-security adviser wrote, calling for Twitter to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Similar praises of twitter include when “The Twitter Revolution” was coined; this came about when demonstrators came together in 2009 in Moldova to protest against the country’s communist government (Gladwell, 2010).
Seventy thousand students took part in the early events of the civil-rights movement all because of 4 students from North Carolina College starting a protest using word of mouth. Something of this calibre could not happen in this day and age with the use of social media getting in the way. Networks are messy as they let the entire world in on the plan (Gladwell, 2010).
It could be said that social media is the new “word of mouth”, which allows the message to spread faster and exponentially. The issue is that this new “word of mouth” through social media is often used as propaganda and may influence people under false pretences as opposed to the traditional word of mouth, which provided people with face-to-face interaction on a subject and built credibility.
Social media makes it easier for the powerless to collaborate. These new media networks do not utilise hierarchy’s, building networks means that decisions are made through a consensus, binding the members together for a cause. This differentiates from hierarchies with their set rules and procedures, as a single central authority doesn’t control the networks. Due to these social networks lacking a centralised leadership, setting and reaching goals becomes difficult. For example Al Qaeda was most dangerous when it was a united hierarchy; now that it has dissipated into a network, it has been far less effective (Gladwell, 2010). While twitter has no specific means to form a hierarchy, it remains a network for open discussion on anything and everything.
The following that is formed by social media promotion could never have been replicated in the pre-internet age argues Shirky (2011). “The ease and speed with which a group can be mobilised for the right kind of cause” is astoundingly different to that in the times of the civil-rights sit in’s, making this model of activism a definite upgrade (Gladwell, 2010).
Social media has become a coordinating tool for nearly all of the world's political movements (Shirky, 2011). It can be argued that the prominent following President Barrack Obama has accumulated on twitter has secured both of his successful campaigns. By reaching a worldwide audience on the network he can generate support and broadcast messages integral to his success. Accumulating almost 43 million followers, the US President has the power to influence his followers whom include celebrities and civilians worldwide.
“A major success factor for Obama’s victory was how Obama’s campaign used social media and technology as an integral part of its strategy, to raise money, and, more importantly, to develop a groundswell of empowered volunteers who felt they could make a difference… Converting everyday people into engaged and empowered volunteers, donors and advocates through social networks, e-mail advocacy, text messaging and online video. The campaign’s proclivity to online advocacy is a major reason for his victory” (Aaker, 2014).
Taking into consideration the world-changing events discussed, which have occurred with the assistance of social media, mainly twitter, it would be fair to conclude that Twitter is a strategy for political gain and collaboration.
References:
Aaker, J. (2014). "Obama and the power of social media and technology." Available at: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=1627
Gladwell, Malcolm. (2010). “Small Change: Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted.” The New Yorker, October 4. Available at:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
Shirky, Clay. (2011). “The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change.” In Foreign Affairs 90:1. Available at:http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67038/clay-shirky/the-political-power-of-social-media
Evgeny Morozov - The Net Delusion. The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
- Highlight on Page xii | Added on Thursday, October 13, 2011, 07:07 PM If the Soviet Union couldn’t survive a platoon of pamphleteers, how can China survive an army of bloggers? It’s hardly surprising, then, that the only place where the West (especially the United States) is still unabashedly eager to promote democracy is in cyberspace. The Freedom Agenda is out; the Twitter Agenda is in. - Highlight on Page xiv | Added on Thursday, November 17, 2011, 06:04 PM Paradoxically, in their refusal to see the downside of the new digital environment, cyber-utopians ended up belittling the role of the Internet, refusing to see that it penetrates and reshapes all walks of political life, not just the ones conducive to democratization. - Highlight on Page xv | Added on Thursday, November 17, 2011, 06:09 PM the lesson to be drawn is that the Internet is here to stay, it will continue growing in importance, and those concerned with democracy promotion need not only grapple with it but also come up with mechanisms and procedures to ensure that another tragic blunder on the scale of Abu Ghraib will never happen in cyberspace. - Highlight on Page 4 | Added on Saturday, December 03, 2011, 11:58 AM Tim Rutten declared that “as new media spreads its Web worldwide, authoritarians like those in Iran will have a difficult time maintaining absolute control in the face of the technology’s chaotic democracy.” - Highlight on Page 5 | Added on Saturday, December 03, 2011, 12:06 PM Such virtual proximity to events in Tehran, abetted by access to the highly emotional photos and videos shot by protesters themselves, led to unprecedented levels of global empathy with the cause of the Green Movement. But in doing so, such networked intimacy may have also greatly inflated popular expectations of what it could actually achieve. - Highlight on Page 5 | Added on Saturday, December 03, 2011, 12:07 PM If anything, Iran’s Twitter Revolution revealed the intense Western longing for a world where information technology is the liberator rather than the oppressor, a world where technology could be harvested to spread democracy around the globe rather than entrench existing autocracies. - Highlight on Page 5 | Added on Saturday, December 03, 2011, 12:09 PM The fervent conviction that given enough gadgets, connectivity, and foreign funding, dictatorships are doomed, which so powerfully manifested itself during the Iranian protests, reveals the pervasive influence of the Google Doctrine. - Highlight on Page 7 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 08:16 PM such impressive breakthroughs in technology failed to bring on any impressive breakthroughs in democratization. Some authoritarian regimes, like those in Slovakia and Serbia, fell. Others, like in Belarus and Kazakhstan, only got stronger. - Highlight on Page 7 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 08:22 PM That Al-Qaeda seemed to be as proficient in using the Internet as its Western opponents did not chime well with a view that treated technology as democracy’s best friend. - Highlight on Page 14 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 09:06 PM Iran’s Twitter Revolution did have global repercussions. Those were, however, extremely ambiguous, and they often strengthened rather than undermined the authoritarian rule. - Highlight on Page 17 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 09:21 PM “The west was focused not on the Iranian people but on the role of western technology,” says Tehrani, adding that “Twitter was important in publicising what was happening, but its role was overemphasised.” - Highlight on Page 19 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 09:31 PM Western policymakers are getting lost in the mists of cyber-utopianism, a quasi-religious belief in the power of the Internet to do supernatural things, from eradicating illiteracy in Africa to organizing all of the world’s information, and one of the central beliefs of the Google Doctrine. - Highlight on Page 20 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 09:47 PM Apparently, nothing bad ever happens on the Internet frequented by the editors of Wired; even spam could be viewed as the ultimate form of modern poetry. - Highlight on Page 21 | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 09:48 PM The border between cyber-utopianism and cyber-naïveté is a blurry one.
- Highlight on Page 24 | Added on Monday, January 30, 2012, 03:52 PM Nevertheless, once the likes of Jared Cohen start lauding Facebook as an organic tool for promoting democracy, it immediately stops being such. In a sense, the only reason why there was so much laxity in the regulation of Internet services operating in authoritarian states was that their leaders did not make the obvious connection between the business interests of American companies and the political interests of the American government. - Highlight on Page 26 | Added on Monday, January 30, 2012, 04:02 PM The opportunities of three years ago, when governments still thought that bloggers were mere hipsters, amusing but ultimately dismissed as a serious political movement, are no longer available. Bloggers, no longer perceived as trendy slackers, are seen as the new Solidarity activists—an overly idealistic and probably wrong characterization shared by democratic and authoritarian governments alike. - Highlight on Page 26 | Added on Monday, January 30, 2012, 04:03 PM The more Western policymakers talk up the threat that bloggers pose to authoritarian regimes, the more likely those regimes are to limit the maneuver space where those bloggers operate. - Highlight on Page 27 | Added on Monday, January 30, 2012, 04:09 PM The oft-repeated mantra of the open source movement—“fail often, fail early”—produces excellent software, but it is not applicable to situations where human lives are at stake.
#TwitterRevolution
