Notes on 'The virtual revolution (part 2) 'The enemy of the state' (BBC 2010)
- Greater level of control and surveillance.
- Digital Media is a notion for radical media change.
- Power of the people or enemy to the web.
- Powerful control of the state to know about us.
- Twitter is uncontrollable.
- Transmit news globally.
- Use the power of information to create a war and revolution.
- The web is like a tool for protest.
- Openness is like a revolution within itself.
- Powerful authoritative countries seem to never be able to deal with the grip of the web.
- Internet empowers anyone that can use it.
- The Internet shows an Houdini type method in constraining any form of data.
- Data published will always be introduced and represented on different internet platforms.
- Ordinary people have a chance to create an uprising.
- The web shrinks the world.
- Applaud for the voice but its disadvantages are its good and bad tendencies of control.
- The web can redefine democracy.
- Does the internet give us a danger we never even imagined.
- The internet can bring down a regime.
- The internet is a revolution but also a form of corruption.
- Struggle for power in both democratic and authoritarian states.
- Internet has inspired freedom of speech via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
- The revolution of the web can create a war against any Government.
- The web creates a power that can be given to society and then used to manipulate a war.
- The web helped spread the protests of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
- Gained power through social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
- Tweets spread like wildfire.
- Tweets were used to help organize the time, date and place of the protesting.
- The government were helpless and attempted to lock-down Twitter.
- Austin Heap created a software in order to spread the news of the protests after Twitter was blocked.
- This software was called 'Haystack' and was an anti censorship tool for use against the authorities in Iran.
- Political landscapes and traditional practices of the media transformed.
- A new revolution had began.
- Our society was under control from smart mobs.
- Digital Media is a notion for radical media change.
- Power of the people or enemy to the web.
- Powerful control of the state to know about us.
- Twitter is uncontrollable.
- Transmit news globally.
- Use the power of information to create a war and revolution.
- The web is like a tool for protest.
- Openness is like a revolution within itself.
- Powerful authoritative countries seem to never be able to deal with the grip of the web.
- Internet empowers anyone that can use it.
- The Internet shows an Houdini type method in constraining any form of data.
- Data published will always be introduced and represented on different internet platforms.
- Ordinary people have a chance to create an uprising.
- The web shrinks the world.
- Applaud for the voice but its disadvantages are its good and bad tendencies of control.
- The web can redefine democracy.
- Does the internet give us a danger we never even imagined.
- The internet can bring down a regime.
- The internet is a revolution but also a form of corruption.
- Struggle for power in both democratic and authoritarian states.
- Internet has inspired freedom of speech via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
- The revolution of the web can create a war against any Government.
- The web creates a power that can be given to society and then used to manipulate a war.
- The web helped spread the protests of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
- Gained power through social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
- Tweets spread like wildfire.
- Tweets were used to help organize the time, date and place of the protesting.
- The government were helpless and attempted to lock-down Twitter.
- Austin Heap created a software in order to spread the news of the protests after Twitter was blocked.
- This software was called 'Haystack' and was an anti censorship tool for use against the authorities in Iran.
London Riots
- In 2011 thousands of people rioted in different parts of London Boroughs and in cities and towns across England.
- This resulted in looting, arson, mugging and mass deployment of Police.
- The riots were also called 'Blackberry riots' because people used these mobile devices and social networking sites to organize their crimes.
- Blackberry messenger was used as a device to stratify the looting.
- Social media was used to control the riots.
- Disturbances started after the murder of Mark Duggan by armed police.
- They believed he had a gun and shot him dead.
- Rioting immediately started and spread like wildfire through to other parts of London.
- The Government were being targeted and the power of the internet and mobile media helped create a panic amongst society.
- Broadcasts sent out on BBM told the public when and where the next riots would be.
- The use of this method created a movement so powerful that the government could not control it.
- Police tried to shut down BBM and were also monitoring Facebook and Twitter.
- Originally Blackberry was marketed towards business people.
- However after the riots Blackberry started marketing their devices towards the youth of our country.
- A moral panic was created about social media during the riots.
- Social networks and mobile phone devices caused such an uproar and dominant force amongst the Government that people became harshly awakened on the control the web can have on major authoritarian countries.
- These technologies had a huge significance on the political landscape of media.- Political landscapes and traditional practices of the media transformed.
- A new revolution had began.
- Our society was under control from smart mobs.
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