Middle East & North Africa

An Old Institution Seeks Legitimacy Through New Media(0)

February 28, 2010

When you hear the words “new media” and “non-democratically elected leaders” in the same sentence, chances are that you start thinking about Burma, Iran or China. But in other countries Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are increasingly used by a more popular breed of heads of state that have never been challenged at the polls.

An Old Institution Seeks Legitimacy Through New Media

Twitter Revolution?

Since Iran’s much-hyped “Twitter Revolution” in June, nothing much has changed. Was it a revolution at all?

Leaving Tehran: SIPA Alum Shares Her Story

SIPA alumna Roshanak Taghavi (MIA 2007), who reported for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, was in Tehran during the June 2009 presidential elections. As journalists fell under increasing pressure from the government, her editors ordered her to leave.

WaPo’s Social Media Guidelines: Bad News for International Media Development

WaPo’s social media guidelines very clearly place tremendous constraints on the ability for its journalists to truly engage people through social media, because they will not be able to use them in an engaging way.