North Korea recruits hackers at school - Features. As South Korea blames North Korea for a recent slew of cyberattacks, two defectors share their experiences with Al Jazeera, shedding some light into the inner workings of the cyberwarfare programme in the communist country.
Kim Heung-kwang, a trainer of "cyberwarriors", and hacker Jang Se-yul also warn of the regime's concentrated efforts to bolster its cyberwarfare capabilities. The hackers' professor. Mark Pfeifle: Changing the Face(book) of Social Activism. The Urban Dictionary defines "Slacktivism" as "the ideology for people who want to appear to be doing something for a particular cause without actually having to do anything.
" It's an apt description of those who click the Facebook "like" and "share" buttons for everything from neutering pets to resolving the European debt crisis. No need to spend a lot of time learning facts, mastering complex arguments, or organizing your friends and neighbors -- and you can leave your money in your wallet. Just retweet a 140-character analysis of federal spending and you can move on to the ball scores. That's been the argument, anyway, of critics of the so-called "social media revolution. " Annotated Bibliography: Twitter and the Iranian Election Protests. The focus of this bibliography is on news articles, primarily.
While not a complete list of every article online, video, document and blog post published on what some have called the “Iranian Twitter Revolution,” this is a fairly representative list of many of the more prominent sources and interesting perspectives, and it may prove useful for teaching and research purposes. When extracts from the article are used in place of commentary, the extracts appear inside quotation marks. The items below are listed by type of resource (all text items [newspaper articles, blog posts], video links, and audio podcasts), in chronological order, and by the name of the publisher for items on the same date.
In listing the items by chronological order, the intention is to facilitate analyses that explore how the story developed over time. Users can either continue reading and using this web page, or you can download a complete copy (minus playable videos and podcast) in PDF: No date, or pre-June 2009. Misreading Tehran: The Twitter Devolution - By Golnaz Esfandiari. Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts that were commenting on the events in Tehran and asked me if I knew the identities of the contributors.
I told her I did, but she seemed disappointed when I told her that one of them was in the United States, one was in Turkey, and the third -- who specialized in urging people to "take to the streets" -- was based in Switzerland. Perhaps I shattered her dreams of an Iranian "Twitter Revolution. " The Western media certainly never tired of claiming that Iranians used Twitter to organize and coordinate their protests following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparent theft of last June's elections. Even the American government seemed to get in on the act. But it is time to get Twitter's role in the events in Iran right.
A number of opposition activists have told me they used text messages, email, and blog posts to publicize protest actions. Background Briefing on a Preview of the Open Government Partnership. MODERATOR: Alright everybody.
We are here to talk about tomorrow’s Open Government Partnership high-level meeting, which the President will participate in. We have two senior Administration officials for your records. The first is [Senior Administration Official One]. And the second is [Senior Administration Official Two], hereafter known as Senior Administration Official One and Senior Administration Official Two. We’re going to do something a little unusual today. Okay. SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL ONE: Good afternoon. This initiative really starts with a challenge that President Obama made at the last UNGA meeting, and I’m going to read to you what he said. The second way of doing this was to engage civic participation more, in other words to be able to have members of society be able to contribute to the way in which government makes decisions and to bring their ideas, their expertise, even their innovations in order to be able to help government make policy.
MODERATOR: Okay. U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder. To Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011. The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in Washington, D.C.
UNESCO is the only UN agency with the mandate to promote freedom of expression and its corollary, freedom of the press. The theme for next year’s commemoration will be 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The arrest of Julian Assange: as it happened. 8.47am: The WikiLeaks story continues to focus on the fate of Julian Assange as much as the contents of the leaked cables.
Assange was meeting his lawyers Mark Stephens and Jennifer Robinson this morning and is expected to meet police within hours. He will release a video statement later today. Last night Robinson said: "We have a received an arrest warrant [related to claims in Sweden]. We are negotiating a meeting with police. "