Zakiah Williams June 24, 2009 Blog # 3 Iran Election The Presidential Election in Iran has caused outrage in Iran, and all over the world. It was said that the votes were not accurate. They suggested that the votes were rigged in some way. This caused protest that ended in both a lot of arrests and some deaths have came out of this outrage. Usually cnn, local news, New York Times, etc., covers these current events. Usually the news won’t stop talking about current events or tragic stories. Some people feel that the media wasn’t covering the story enough. This outraged the public even more. They were already outraged over what happen with the election, and some people feel that is was not getting much attention. When something bad happens, and doesn’t get the attention that it should get, the change doesn’t come. That made people even more outraged. At times social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc., have bad reputations. People often think that people waste to much time on these networks. A lot of people, think that people can use there time a little better than this. Like for example Twitter, some feel that it is pointless to let people know what fast food place you went to earlier in the day. In this case it what the exact opposite. These same social networks that often get criticized for there uselessness, is actually being a good use to the cause. The New York Times and BBC have been helpful in keeping us informed. Some cable networks have been good with keeping us informed. Some people feel like we should not give these social networks to much credit. They won’t take the place of media and the news. Bloggs and utube, may not be considered a social network, but it helps to get current events, and to get peoples’ opinions on the current events. At times you can’t always rely on journalist, the media, and news reporters to spread the news. Sometimes the people in the action should spread the word. That is what is being discovered about these social networks. Some people feel that they need to get the everyday peoples’ point of view. That is where these social networks come into play. It was said that about one thousand tweets were tweeted from all over the world. With certain pages, there would be so many tweets, that you would have to refresh the screen to get the information. There were a lot of deaths over this protest. There was a young a woman that died, and it was on Facebook. It was said that a lot of people were re-tweeting things that were tweeted to news on the current events. They were trying to update them as soon as possible. Google has been used to translate languages between different countries. This also makes it easier to translate news all over the country. Now Google is becoming a good tool on translating. These social networks are bringing traditional news casting down. People are not going to be relying on the news as much, more popular that these networks get. This might change the people watch and spread the news. I got this information from Larvatus Prodeo and Vator News.