More on Iran and New Media

My dad just called and left a long message on my machine about how Twitter is changing the world. I even got an "you were right," which is a very rare thing to hear from George. Well, I don't think that Twitter is changing the world, but I do love watching the new media angle on Iran.

I'm going to make this my anchor post on the topic, and I'm going to keep filling in links as I find them.

Sullivan gets punk'd.

Evgeny Morozov, blogger for Foreign Policy magazine and a fellow with Open Society Institute, talks about events at the Washington Post.

Matthew Yglesias says that Twitter can't trump theocracy.

Best post on the topic so far comes from Ethan Zuckerman.

Steve Clemens has had a great series of posts on this topic and on Iran in general.

Twitter denies being a federal agency. 

OSI Forum: The Political Impact of New Media in the Middle East. Features Abu Aardvark. 

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  1. Not exactly. Yglesias said not that “Twitter can’t trump theocracy” but that it depends on internal conditions.

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