Tag: Social Media
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Twitter, the July Days and the Arab Spring
Crowds in revolutions are fascinating for the historian as we try to unpick and explain to our students how the “Paris Mob” operated so the tweets from the revolutions of the “Arab Spring” are not only a wonderful document of a struggle for democracy, but also a case study in revolution.
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Students free to pan profs online…
is coming up all my tweeterstream this morning after a Canadian court threw out charges of non-academic misconduct against 2 Calgary students for criticizing their lecturer on Facebook. I’ve always felt students should be able to speak out about academics, but I don’t know if this particular case is very helpful – all they said…
