{"id":51447,"date":"2016-07-20T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51447"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:58:21","slug":"net-gains-in-turkey-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51447","title":{"rendered":"Net gains in Turkey and Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Camero<\/strong>n — when two data points contradict a trend, what’s up? ]
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Gotta love<\/strong> the graphic of “Twitter being written into the ancient Persian Cyrus Cylinder in an animation film for Farsi Twitter, highlighting the platforms importance for communications in Iran” (upper panel, below):<\/p>\n

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— and there’s something faintly Escherian <\/strong>about the screengrab of Turkish President Erdogen<\/strong> in, what, a hall of screens? (lower panel, above).<\/p>\n

I’ve said before that single data-points mean little, but two of them — outliers from a general trend — may consitute an eddy in the stream, a knot in the wood, a disturbance in the force worth noting, worth looking into.<\/p>\n

Thus far, our interest in social media in the Middle East has largely focused on terrorist uses [eg Berger<\/strong> 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>] and counter-terrorism & CVE measures [eg Aistrope<\/a>], with a sidelong glance at authorities blocking the net {eg Kerr<\/a>]..<\/p>\n

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Here’s the video:
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