I began Pixels and Policy as a way of exploring my thoughts
about digital communication as a potentially transformative medium on the
global stage. Around the same time as I began writing Pixels and Policy, way
back in August 2009, tens of thousands of brave citizen activists in Iran stood
up to a regime universally regarded as brutally repressive, violent and theocratic.
Within days of
Though much of their fight took place in city streets and town squares, the rest of the world came to know Iranian protest figures like Neda Agha-Soltan and Mir-Hossein Moussavi chiefly through their creative use of digital communication sources as a platform for civic protest. Western news outlets couldn’t get enough of how the pro-democracy “Green Revolution” mobilized disparate groups of protesters through online social media like Twitter. Less reported was their widespread use of virtual social media like Second Life and Facebook, where communication could carry on unencumbered by the heavy hand of Iranian security forces.
Nearly one year on from my first article about
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