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January 2, 2012 08:15 pm PST
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LOLcats and the Arab Spring - human rights and the Internet
On the CBC Ideas podcast, a lecture by Ethan Zuckerman on the connection between LOLcats, Internet activism and the Arab Spring: In the 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture, Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, looks at the "cute cat" theory of internet activism, and how it helps explain the Arab [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CD9uiqEJPJs/lolcats-and-the-arab-spring.html
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