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Category Archives: Deep Thoughts & Musings

  1. Men with the women headscarves on facebook December 17, 2009

    Iranian men in headscarf The Iranian anti-government movement took an innovative step that revealed the capabilities and potentials of new media in social mobilization.  This new phase of movement began with Iranian men posting pictures of themselves on social networks such as Facebook wearing women’s headscarves as a political statement after the arrest of a [...]

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  2. Spreading a Message One Facebook Friend at a Time December 14, 2009

    Just a few years ago, Facebook was still the place to keep tabs on next weekend’s party line-up or to find out what your friend’s cousin ate for dinner last night.  For some it still serves such “social networking” purposes.  But for others, it is a tool, a means through which to deliver a message [...]

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  3. To Blog or Not to Blog: Is Blogging Inducing Anxiety in Academia? November 16, 2009

                With the Internet containing more and more of our personal information, we have inevitably become more concerned about those details spilling out to the public, and by “public” we really mean potential employers.  This is the obvious worry when it comes to forums like facebook and google searches.  But then [...]

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  4. For Small Non-Profits, Is Making the Time to be Online Really Worth It? October 12, 2009

    Can online social networking and website interactivity really help a small non-profit in Guatemala fundraise and get its name out? Or is it not really worth it?

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  5. Here comes the sound September 30, 2009

    these are the photos taken by one of my fellows on the campus of my university in Shanghai. This campus has been transpositioned and going to be taken over by the municipal government; therefore, it is moving to a coastal town in a larger scale, which is great for the development of the school. however, all these oldy but goody pieces recall my sense of nostalgia. I hereby record it as the inception of my journey with this space, an excellent segue from past to the brand new future. Alas!

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