Sunday, June 21, 2009

Mousavi Supporters on Internet

Supporters of pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi are using the Internet to protest election results showing a win for incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, organizing demonstrations and using hacking tools to crash official government sites, according to Wired's Danger Room blog.
Many international news organizations are live-blogging the Iran story, collecting news from both mainstream and citizen sources. A guide to Iranian election coverage on the Web follows:
Photos and Video
PicFog is a real-time feed of images posted to Twitter. Enter a search term to narrow the field and follow a specific topic. Keep in mind there isn't any editing -- you get all of the images, even if they involve a level of gore or manipulation not found on traditional news sites.


Tehran 24 is a photoblog of Iran's capital city maintained by Amir Sadeghi. Recent posts have been focusing on the election and ensuing protests.
Mousavi's supporters are also posting video and photos to
Flickr and YouTube.
Twitter
Visit
http://iran.twazzup.com/ to track all things Iran-related on Twitter. To see more of the latest tweets on Iran's election, you can search Twitter for certain hashtags. At the moment, #iranelection, #mousavi and #Tehran are among the most popular topics on Twitter.
Mousavi's supporters have also been using Twitter to organize rallies, in both Farsi and English, and distribute protest images and video.
Facebook
The Group "where is my vote " connects iranians living outside the country who took part in presidential elections.
News Web Sites and Blogs
The
National Iranian American Council is live blogging events in Iran and translating Twitter and Facebook posts from Farsi into English.
Blog aggregation site
Global Voices is devoting a special section to the election, translating and collecting reports in the Iranian blogosphere.
In the U.S.,
The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan is devoting his blog to covering the Iranian election aftermath, as is the New York Times' The Lede blog and the Huffington Post. The BBC is also tracking the latest news, along with background information and comments from readers.
Finally, the independent
Tehran Bureau, founded by Iranian-born journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, is mixing on-the-ground reports with analysis written by academics and journalists.

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