Harnessing the Mobile Revolution as Iranian Government Bans Facebook
New Tools and Technologies Can (and have) Fostered Democracy
How often do you check your Facebook page? What if you tried to log on and Facebook was blocked?
If you live in Iran, that’s exactly what has happened: the government has banned Facebook ahead of the June 12 election there. Why? Because opposition candidate Mit Houssain Mousavi, taking a page from Barack Obama’s campaign playbook, has used the social networking site as well as blogs and other new media and tools to appeal to Iran’s Millennial Generation.