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Here at OSM we’ve noted the growing ties between social media and politics for some time. At the time of the Midterm Elections we noted the race using social media and also how many news organizations were now using social media for their coverage. We then also noted the links between the winners … [Read more...]
For anyone who may have been watching the news over the last 2 or so weeks, will be aware of the controversial WikiLeaks scandal, in which illegal leaked classified information, such as private and top secret memos and documents have been placed on the internet for all and sundry to see. As well as … [Read more...]
We all know there are many pros and cons to the Internet and many people would point out one of the more unsavoury aspects of it, the prevalence of porn sites, is one of its big drawbacks. Although of course this depends entirely on personal taste! … [Read more...]
Here at OSM we’ve been covering all the news about the WikiLeaks Cyberwar and just a few of our recent posts included removeable media now being banned by the U.S. Military, European Amazon sites going down thought to be connected with pro-WikiLeaks hackers, and most recently the fact that Julian … [Read more...]
If you’ve been following all our WikiLeaks posts here on OSM you’ll know we’ve been bringing you all the latest developments and most recently wrote about a link between the Amazon store going down and WikiLeaks, removeable media being banned by the U.S. military and also asked how much worse … [Read more...]
We know how many of you are following all the news about WikiLeaks after the latest round of leaks and have posted many articles on this. Recent posts included telling how Facebook and also Twitter are still holding out against banning WikiLeaks despite pressure from the U.S. government which has … [Read more...]
With the government's decision yesterday to allow universities across the UK to triple tuition fees, students from all areas took to London to protest and riot. Affected graduate hopefuls everywhere have also used social networks to make their feelings heard with Twitter especially becoming busy … [Read more...]
Since the last round of WikiLeaks leaks we have been bringing you news almost daily it seems about attempts to impede WikiLeaks. The U.S. government has made it perfectly clear how displeased it is with WikiLeaks and following pressure from various sources Amazon booted WikiLeaks from its servers, … [Read more...]
We’ve been bringing you all the news about the latest round of WikiLeaks leaks with more developments every day it seems. Our most recent posts have included articles about WikiLeaks being booted from Amazon, having its account stopped by PayPal and the allegations that the Chinese government … [Read more...]
It seems that virtually every day lately we have more news to tell you about WikiLeaks, the whistle blowing website, after its latest round of leaks. WikiLeaks has had troubles heaped upon it since, with the U.S. government making its displeasure known leading to Amazon booting Wikileaks from its … [Read more...]
We’ve been bringing you news about Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website for some time now and know that it’s a controversial subject. While some feel the site goes too far and threatens U.S. national security, others feel that it’s a good thing that many of the leaks so far should have … [Read more...]
We’ve been keeping you informed about the latest round of Wikileaks leaks including the denial of service attack on the Wikileaks site, the key points about the recent leaks, and then yesterday reporting on Wikileaks’ founder, Julian Assange, being put on Interpol’s most-wanted list. … [Read more...]
Here at OSM we’ve been keeping you informed about the latest round of Wikileaks leaks. We told how the Wikileaks website was under a mass distributed denial of service attack, and then posted an article on some of the key points from the leaked cables. … [Read more...]
Last week we brought you the news that another major leak of documents was about to come from Wikileaks, the whistle blowing site, which it said would redefine global history. Then yesterday we brought more news to say the site was under a mass distributed service of denial attack, shortly before … [Read more...]
We’ve seen some novel new ways of marketing and promotion lately with news of a Coca-Cola promotion in conjunction with SCVNGR and Jay-Z promoting his book “Decoded” with a Bing campaign. Now it’s George W. Bush who has a book to promote and he’s making the usual rounds of promotional … [Read more...]
We’ve been noting the effect of social media on politics more and more lately and it really came into its own in the recent U.S. midterm elections with many news organizations covering events using social media. We also took a look at individual politicians’ use of sites such as Twitter and … [Read more...]
Egypt is a country where political activism has been made very difficult since emergency laws were put in place in 1981, thus forming a credible and popular opposition is not easy to say the least. However one area that people are still able to have a public platform is on the Internet and … [Read more...]
There have long been privacy concerns with Facebook, Google and others and this story about information being given to companies about people accessing an NHS website, may well worry a lot of people. It has been disclosed that users of the NHS Choices website are having the ‘conditions’ pages … [Read more...]
We’ve recently seen with the Midterm Elections 2010 how social media is being increasingly used in politics including how many news organizations offered coverage of the election through social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. … [Read more...]
Today, November 2, is mid-term Election Day 2010 in the U.S. and no doubt people across the country will be heading out to the polls soon to cast their votes. Yesterday we told how the use of social media is growing in political campaigning and it’s also true that social media news coverage of … [Read more...]
Mid-term elections 2010 are taking place in the U.S. tomorrow, Tuesday November 2, and the outcome will decide who will take control of Congress for the next two years, the Democrats or the Republicans. … [Read more...]
A Labour party frontbencher has been given a caution by police as she illegally revealed election results on her Twitter account during this years general election. … [Read more...]
Yesterday saw the government Spending Review 2010 from George Osborne and as expected some of the most severe cuts were announced for public spending in many years. It’s estimated that around 490,000 public sector jobs will be lost and departmental budgets face cuts that average 19% over the … [Read more...]
As the use of social media becomes increasingly important in the field of politics it appears that Facebook is proving its intent to get in on the live streaming market by teaming up with ABC to provide coverage on election night. … [Read more...]
Social media is becoming more widely used for politics every day and was used extensively at the Labour Party Conference recently when the announcement of Ed Miliband as Labour Leader set Twitter alight. The Conservative Party Conference 2010 has now begun in Birmingham and already news is coming … [Read more...]
