'Out of the few hundred real twitter users in Iran recently before fake twitters from Tehran showed hundred actively released the news of mass organising. Gaurav of the following blog questions
'Calling the Iran protests a 'Twitter Revolution' is not only distracting but also dangerous because it reduces a legitimate broad-based grassroots movement to what's quickly becoming a cliche, after Moldova.'
The new fuss about how technology driven revolutions become milestones of twitter and social media band wagon is illusionary and sometimes as the above blog mentions overshadows the real ground effort and organizing.
Is it possible that the free form of internet is leaning towards a certain idea of global lifestyle and becoming a propaganda grounds for media analyst and oppurutnist to get attention while the real news gets sidelined?
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Saugat Datta
Media Artist
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