Tweeting the Revolution - Turkey and Brazil

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How Brazilian protesters are using Twitter

The Guardian - Posted by Andrés Monroy-Hernández and Emma Spiro, 7/04/13

 

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A Brazilian protestor. Photograph: Pedro Waddington
 
People turned to social media to share what they saw on the streets and invite others to join in the protests. For example, some of our most active Brazilian users of So.cl have been posting daily collages with images, links, and descriptions of the protests. According to a well-known polling company, a surprising 72% of Brazilians online supported the demonstrations, and 10% claimed to have joined the protests on the streets. For a while, leftist President Rouseff maintained a high approval rate of 55%, down from 63% the year before and still one of the highest for any leader in the world. By June 29th, however, only 30% of Brazilians considered her administration "great" or "good."
 

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Tools Of Victory: The Tech That Helped Turkish Protesters Save Taksim Square

Forbes - 7/03/13, Alex Konrad

The failure of major Turkish media outlets to cover the protests is now well-documented, but their response may have “become the straw that broke the camel’s back” in pushing Turks to look primarily to social media that was already popular in the country, says Yaman Akdeniz, a law professor at Istanbul Bilgi University.

That led to a Twitter explosion at an unprecedented level. The most popular hashtag on Twitter, “direngezipark,” was tweeted 1.8 million times in three days, more than the most popular hashtag of the entire Egyptian revolution movement in 2011, according to a report by Megan MacDuffee Metzger and Pablo Barberá, who studied Twitter use in the Turkish protests for the Social Media and Political Participation work group at New York University.

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