Welcome to April! A month of fools, spring and chocolate! Amazing. This week has been some what busy, what with interviews, presentations, walks, art, friends, films, and delicious food, best get started! American elections – As we get a step closer to the American elections (being held on 06th November) I came across this video [...]
Following the recent riots in England, the UK government toyed with the idea of disabling Social Media channels during moments of civil unrest, blaming channels such as the private Blackberry BBM service for the uniting of gangs across England. Whilst it was discovered this particular service was a major channel of communication for rioters, other [...]
Following a recent article published by Newsweek calling Grand Rapids a “dying city”, the people of Michigan city decided to respond with a music video. The Grand Rapids LipDub was filmed in May with over 5,000 participants. Since it went live it’s received over 1.6 million views, watch it, but try not to sing along…
On Saturday 26th March 2011 around 500,000 people took to the streets of London to protest against the cuts. During the day I tweeted what I saw and photographed the action around me. The day started pretty relaxed with the hundreds of thousands of people marching in unison along the Thames. The general mood of [...]
On February 11th you may have, like millions of others across the globe, witnessed the celebrations in Tahrir Square after Hosni Mubarak stepped down from his role as president. After 18 long days of protests the Egyptian people descended to the streets in joy. Sitting in his own home Jigar Mehta was certainly observing, and [...]
For those on the streets of Egypt during the recent political protests social media played a key role in informing the outside world of their experiences. Using their personal devices people documented the action from the centre of the protests, capturing footage other media crews weren’t able to film. Within hours of the protests erupting [...]
A local FOX station in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas has recorded a brilliant segment satirising social media called “The Fox 4 DFW Roast of Social Media”. Facebook, Foursquare, Skype and Twitter are all featured in it. The Newsreporter opens up with breaking news about a gunman on the loose in City Hall, but every correspondent on [...]
On 07th November Burma will hold it’s first election in over 20 years. The last election was held in 1990, and was won overwhelmingly (by 80%) by the National League for Democracy (NLD) – led by Aung San Suu Kyi (left.) The result was never accepted by the military, and Aung San Suu Kyi has [...]
I’ve just come across this pretty awesome graphic illustrating the statistics behind World CO2 emissions, check it out, I think you’ll be pretty blown away!
As the clean-up from the BP oil spill begins, an interesting relationship between technology and social activism has emerged. Activist group ‘Women of the Storm‘ is rallying public support around the restoration of the Gulf. With the introduction of the ‘Be the one‘ campaign ‘Women of the Storm’ are encouraging viewers to sign their celebrity-driven [...]
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