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Annotated Bibliography

Fox Business. “Google Launches Twitter Workaround for Egypt.” Fox Business. N.p., 1 Feb. 2011. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. .

This link explains how Google launched a special program for Egyptians to send Twitter messages through their phone that leaves a voicemail because of the loss of internet connection in the country. to do this you just dial a certain phone number, then the voicemail is translated into an audio file message which is sent on Twitter using the identifying tag #egypt. this is a great idea and new innovation that Google made for the people of Egypt seeing as the government shut down internet and text messaging in the country. even Youtube took action into combating the government by streaming live coverage of Al Jazeera's broadcasts of the events in Egypt. With the power of of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Youtube, the country of Egypt was finally free from the evil that was President Hosni Mubarak, which got him out of office for his unjust acts.

Gross, Doug. “Google, Twitter help give voice to Egyptians.” CNN. N.p., 1 Feb. 2011. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. .

Like the last link, this source gives out more information about the use of voicemails conversion to tweets. Google, Twitter, and a program called SayNow created the tool that can convert your voice, translate that language to english, and convert it into tweets for all of us to understand. the numbers to call for translation are +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855. people can even listen to the voices of the egyptians by going to twitter.com/speak2tweet. when tweets are generated, they always have the trend #egypt, which is very efficient when you take a look at the world trends and always catches your eye and make you see what it is all about. and even though mobile phone access is very weak in Egypt due to Mubarak closing of the internet and phone towers, people can still use landlines to get their message across.

O’Dell, Jolie. “How Egyptians Used Twitter During the January Crisis.” Mashable. N.p., 1 Feb. 2011. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. .

this source is a little different, in that it uses charts to describe the location of the tweets and the number of tweets and Twitter accounts. all of this information has been generated by the social media intelligence firm Sysomos. this is all done by analyzing keywords and location data, that might show just how news and information about Egypt are being shown by social media. on the graph, it states that 14,642 Twitter users identified their locations being either Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, with Egypt taking the greater of the majority. these charts also explain the use of keywords and the amount of tweets being sent per week.

Ungerleider, Neal. “Massive Egyptian Protests Powered by YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Twitpic [Pics, Video, Updates].” Fast Company. N.p., 25 Jan. 2011. Web. 27 Oct. 2011. .

this link explains how these tweets are being sent and the result of the tweets. it explains and shows videos and pics being used and posted on Facebook and Twitter for the whole world to show. as a result of the tweets, Mubarak ordered the government to shut down the country's internet and phone towers to that the people cannot signal help from the outside world. with this outrageous call of action, the egyptians started to riot, and called January 25 the Day of Rage, where they stormed the streets and riot to overthrow Mubarak. a Facebook page, called Mama Qarat, posted this picture of people in the streets rioting.as a result, the rioting and social media revolution worked and got Mubarak out of office. hopefully, things will change so that Egypt can finally live in peace.

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Facebook is a superorganism, being that it is a big community made up of individual minds. anyone can make things such as groups, events, and even pages to stay connected to the real world as well as using other news sources such as CNN, FOX, and MSNBC to get news from something you go on all the time. it makes people express who they are and find people with the same interests and connect with them. it almost works as if it is 6 degrees of separation, that is that everyone knows everyone in the world, kind of how the internet is so connected to multiple sources. but if everyone stopped using facebook, then facebook will collapse and stop operating just like myspace. but that will not happen, because facebook is increasing and rapidly growing as we speak, which is great for the world to have something that can inform you with a matter of  seconds while talking with your best friends.

behavior

the only time that i had emergent behavior is last last Wednesday when we wore different t-shirts and try to create letters with everyone in all of the digital media fys classes. it was very unique on how everyone communicated the first time when we all tried to make an O,  which one of the simplest letters to make. then, when the professors said to change into another letter, some people wanted to make a U and others wanted an M or W, so everyone just walked around aimlessly. but, as i was seeing people walked, we were in place to make a lower case E, so i took charge and told people where to move and we made a lower case E. this can apply to the real world, that is if one person can step up and take control of a situation and lead something to get an objective done, then things will be better off when it comes to human relations and social justice.

Made in China

BlogPosts 7 & 8

Following are the two debate queries.  Please provide both sides of the issue for each query with references.  (1000 words).

1.) The US government should institute formal policy that bars overseas sales of systems that provide targeted Internet surveillance if such systems are used to violate human rights or freedom of speech (such as the current internet censorship in China).

To me, the topic on whether or not the US should institute formal policy that bars overseas sales of systems that provide targeted Internet surveillance if such systems are used to violate human rights or freedom of speech is ticky-tacky. On one hand this could be very helpful for it will limit the amount of censorship that the Chinese government could perform as well as giving the Chinese government less power over their citizens in a social media aspect. We are a country that is based off of liberty, freedom, and opportunity and should not let any other country tell us how to treat a human’s rights and beliefs by helping them in their communistic world. As a country based on democracy, we should not help and manufacture products to countries such as China who deprive people of basic inalienable, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to believe whatever you want to believe. This would give China a big blow seeing as we are one of their best allies and traders. Hopefully that would change and speak out to the rest of the world what is really going on in China and changing the government and lifestyle there like what happened in Egypt earlier this year.

However, if we do hold our companies to not sell to China, then we are no better than China is. Companies should sell to whoever they want no matter how much of a different society they run. No matter how you look at it, companies should sell to countries that are willing to buy so that they can sustain and stand under this bad economy, not to mention that it also helps us as a national economy. Speaking of economy, not only would we be like China if we deprive our companies of selling overseas, but we are in major debt to China for picking us up while we had our economic collapse in 2008. China was the largest single shareholder to the US government with a ridiculous 36% compared to all other supporters. If we go against China, then they can just pull the plug on us now and we would be screwed for lack of better words. We need to keep our economic status up to par and we need China’s help to much of most Americans’ distain. So it’s not like we can bit the hand that feeds us while we are in debt to them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/20/AR2009112004152.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/china_debt_bomb_onc23nzJdiQR7gTLkrwSpL

2.) The evolving capabilities to speak out and criticize the Chinese government using microblogs and other Internet social media will lead to more and greater freedoms for the Chinese people.

The topic on evolving capabilities to speak out and criticize the Chinese government using microblogs and other Internet social media is also a tricky one to side with. On one side this is great for people to let the world know how terrible China really is as a society. If you get everyone informed on how bad China is, then countries will second guess whether or not to help out China as well as having people not go there and making China look unattractive.. As we all know, words are a powerful thing and can change the minds of so many people. Who knows, doing this might change the government like how Twitter and Facebook essentially changed the government in Egypt.

However, seeing as this scenario involves people in China, this could create more problems than solutions for the Chinese people by creating very strict disciplinary actions for the government to issue. The government can create laws towards freedom of speech that if they break those laws then costly and dangerous penalties would be put in place to those who oppose the system. This also might make the government take away other rights and liberties to the Chinese people that are costly to them and not as big to the government. Also, seeing as we all saw how communism works back with the Russians, China will not stop in being a communistic society. The only way that the people can maybe have a chance into changing the government system is to do what the Egyptians did early this year and that is to riot, which gives up so many lives. But the Egyptians’ transition to new governments is completely different from what China wants to do. Communism is like a hungry beast that if you don’t feed it, then it will stop at nothing to satisfy itself by doing anything to get what it wants, even if it means giving up lives.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1981566,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/index-china.html