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The Christian Science Monitor interviewed CPD Director Philip Seib about how the Internet has influenced the rise of social movements such as Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" which has gone global in a short amount of time. Seib notes, "the Internet only amplifies these movements. I would think we’re going to have more and more phenomena that start national and become global."

Philip Seib was quoted in a piece about how Central Command uses social media to respond to "enemy" propaganda, "you get a lot of wrong information, purposely or accidently, on the web, that can take on a life of its own and by engaging people about that expands the debate."

CPD University Fellow Nicholas Cull was recently quoted on the subject of nation branding by Greg Barns of the ABC blog "The Drum Unleashed." Barns cited excerpts from Cull's CPD blog "Advance Australia Where? Nation Brands and Soft Power Down-Under" as evidence of a decline in Australia's international image.

CPD Director Philip Seib was quoted on the need to reframe how the world views Al Qaeda in a Zero Hora article.

CPD Director Philip Seib was quoted in an Oct. 17 AFP article titled, "Al-Qaeda reaches out armed with English, Internet."

CPD University Fellow Rob Asghar published an op-ed in The Providence Journal Aug. 25.

Southern California Public Radio KPPC featured CPD University Fellow Rob Asghar. Read the full article here.

In a July 21 article, Ethiopian newspaper Addis Neger discusses the 'Al Jazeera Effect,' and cites CPD Director Philip Seib, who coined the term. The article reviews the term, its various existing interpretations, and its applicability to Ethiopia's public sphere.

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