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KEEP READINGCPD Director Quoted on Social Media and the Middle East
Jun 20, 2011
CPD Director Philip Seib was quoted in The Christian Post regarding the use of social media in the Middle East.
Reporter R. Leigh Coleman discussed a new study indicating that social media has been shown to "save lives" in the Middle East, indirectly, of course, because, essentially, it is the people using the networks who are demonstrating what can be accomplished through them. Seib was quoted as saying: "from China to Yemen to Tunisia to Egypt, social media has given ordinary citizens extraordinary ways to organize themselves and be heard. This has destabilized 'politics as usual' bringing volatility to an already unstable world."
Coleman goes on to state that the utility and potential for these "keyboard activists" to govern a country after a revolution has subsided will be discussed further in the Strategic Communications Conference later this week in Los Angeles, CA.
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