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‘Facebook terrorism’ fuels murder mafia in Syria

By dog | Published: May 25, 2012

Social media is playing a vital role in Syria’s conflict, as both sides try to shape domestic and international opinion in their favour. Chilling videos of acts of brutality have the power to go viral and be broadcast on global TV networks – but sometimes, the pictures aren’t everything they appear to be. Oksana Boyko [...]

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged aleppo, arab, arabia, army, assad, blasts, boyko, cease, civil, damascus, Facebook, fire, free, hama;, homs, military, observers, oksana, qatar, rebels, rt, saudi, Social, spring, syria, syrian, twitter, UN, war | Comments closed

CrossTalk: Clicktivism

By dog | Published: April 2, 2012

Is clicktivism a real game-changer? Or does it create an illusion that you really change something? Can clicktivism replace real social activism? If you click on something, does it mean you will engage in something positive? Is the role of facebook and twitter overestimated when it comes to revolutionary changes? CrossTalking with Alex Halavais, John [...]

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged activism, alex, barlow, clicktivism, cross, cyber, Facebook, geert, halavais, issues, john, lavelle, lovink, on, perry, peter, protest, revolution, rt, Social, space, talk, twitter | Comments closed

NSA vs USA: Total surveillance zooms-in on Americans

By dog | Published: April 1, 2012

Ever evolving high-tech gadgets and the Internet have given Big Brother a peep hole into the lives of everyday Americans. Now, without the hassle of planting bugs or breaking and entering, the government can monitor virtually anything it wants. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged big, brother, CCTV, center, centre, CIA, cyber, cyber-security, data, Facebook, Google, government, intelligence, interenet, lab, marina, media, monitoring, national, nsa, operation, portnaya, rt, search, security, Social, spying, surveillance, tracking, US, utah | Comments closed

140 Killing Characters: Twitter scandals & revolts

By dog | Published: March 23, 2012

It’s the social networking site that started as a platform for personal trivia about our daily lives, but became a formidable force in helping bring down governments. Twitter’s marking its six year anniversary. But there’s criticism over the influence it has on public opinion, with its ability to spread information around the world irrespective of [...]

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged 140, anastasia, anonymous, broadcasting, carpentier, characters, churkina, danny, debar, don, iran, lee, libya, matthew, megan, New, occupy, rall, rt, schechter, Social, street, TED, Tehran, tripoli, twitter, wall, York | Comments closed

Tweephone: Vintage twist to modern blogging

By dog | Published: March 18, 2012

Accessing Facebook or Twitter is as easy as can be – with a smartphone to hand. But what if you’re stuck in the past with an old rotary phone? That’s no longer a problem – thanks to an invention from Ukraine. Aleksey Yaroshevsky tried-out the new design. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged aleksey, analogue, blog, gadget, gizmo, high, hipster, old, phone, rt, school, Social, socializing, tech, technology, telephone, twitter, ukraine, yaroshevsky | Comments closed

Bigger Brother: Total surveillance comes to UK

By dog | Published: March 9, 2012

In the UK, the chances are you’re being watched. It has more CCTV cameras per person than almost any other nation on earth. And now the government is planning to cast its intrusive eye over online activity, phone calls and text messages, all under the guise of an anti-terror law. And as RT’s Ivor Bennett [...]

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged bennett, big, brother, CCTV, cyber, Facebook, Internet, ivor, jim, killock, media, national, nick, operation, peter, pickles, rt, security, Social, sommer, surveillance, UK | Comments closed

Looking for a Job? How to Catch Google’s Attention

By dog | Published: March 8, 2012

Complete video at fora.tv Lazlo Bock, Vice President of People Operations at Google and George Anders, author of The Rare Find, lay out what prospective employees can do to attract Google’s attention. Bock admits that Google often seeks out “people who are not looking for jobs.” —- Google’s unique hiring process and reputation for wooing [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged anders, apply, bock, employee, employment, find, george, Google, headhunting, hiring, hunt, job, lazlo, linkedin, networking, practices, rare, recruiting, resume, screening | Comments closed

SEC head Schapiro talks STOCK Act, social media’s impact on insider trading

By dog | Published: February 23, 2012

Complete video at: fora.tv SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said the STOCK Act laying more prohibitions on stock trading by members of Congress was a positive while social media has become a complicating factor in insider trading investigations at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor in Washington, DC —– On Wednesday, February 22, Mary [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged act, breakfast, christian, commission, exchange, fora, foratv, insider, investing, market, mary, media, monitor, oversight, regulation, regulations, schapiro, Science, sec, securities, Social, stock, trading, tv | Comments closed

Twitter to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis

By dog | Published: January 30, 2012

Twitter has unveiled plans to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, drawing criticism from free-speech advocates a year after it was praised by Internet Freedom advocates for allowing Egyptian dissidents to continue tweeting after the Internet was blocked during the Arab Spring. Twitter says its country-specific censorship is meant to replace its previous system, when [...]

Posted in NMA TV | Also tagged 20, activists, and, arab, backlash, big, brother, censor, censorship, chillingeffectsorg, commits, country, free, Freedom, Internet, media, microblogging, networking, New, of, realtime, Social, specific, speech, spring, suicide, tweets, twitter, twitters, web | Comments closed

Trains operators get hacking warning

By dog | Published: December 30, 2011

Computers which control train networks have been exposed as being at risk of hacking after a German security expert told a security conference in Berlin that hackers could shut down railway switching systems, by overloading them with traffic. Operators are downplaying the threat, saying the system is both robust and secure but after a year [...]

Posted in Al Jazeera | Also tagged al, aljazeera, bazley, berlin, computers, conference, english, europenews, expert, german, governments, hackers, jazeera, railway, reports, security, tarek, train | Comments closed

Take Out the Earbuds: Have We Lost Our Ability to Listen?

By dog | Published: December 1, 2011

Complete video at: fora.tv Between the proliferation of earbuds, the culture of personal broadcasting, and the increasing pace of life across much of the globe, are we losing our ability to listen? Julian Treasure, author of Sound Business, laments what he sees as an undeniable trend toward fragmented listening and the muffling of the “quiet, [...]

Posted in ForaTV | Also tagged communication, danger, fora, foratv, headphones, hearing, julian, l2, life, listening, media, modern, networking, noise, pace, pollution, quality, Social, sound, treasure, tv | Comments closed

Spy Within: UK Big Brother wants eye on social networks

By dog | Published: November 4, 2011

The British government has blamed social networking sites for spreading unrest during the August riots across England. In an attempt to prevent similar trouble in future, one part of London is now proposing to monitor online activity at youth centers. But as RT’s Laura Smith reports, it’s a risky game that may breach the vital [...]

Posted in Russia Today | Also tagged 2011, big, blackberry, brother, clashes, cops, duggan, Facebook, hackney, laura, london, manchester, Mark, media, police, protesters, riot, riots, rt, smith, Social, tottenham, twitter, UK, vigilantes | Comments closed

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