[Sigdl-l] The “Arab Spring” and Social Media

[Adrian Ho]

Sending an invitation on behalf of Toni Greider.  Apologies for
cross-posting.


Greetings,

We are pleased to announce that on October 14th, the University of Kentucky
Libraries along with the College of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring *The
“Arab Spring” and Social Media: Possibilities and Perils in a Networked Age*,
a presentation by Dr. Todd Presner.  Dr. Presner is the Chair of UCLA’s
Digital Humanities Program and also the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of
the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies.  He is the co-author of Digital
Humanities published by MIK Press in 2012 and most recently HyperCities:
Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities  published by Harvard University
Press in 2014. Dr. Presner will discuss a series of projects that analyze
the role of social media in the Middle East, starting with the 2009 Tehran
election protests and going up to the 2011 “Arab Spring.” He will include
Twitter projects such as the “Voices of January 25th” (Egypt),  “Voices of
February 17th” (Libya), and HyperCities as examples.

The program will be on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 3:30 p.m. EDT and we
are working on streaming this event.  We expect the event to run about 1
hour.  If you are interested in attending “virtually” please fill out the
contact form at:  http://bit.ly/1msWexo  so we can send you the information
to attend.


Toni Greider
Toni.Greider at uky.edu
Director of International Programs
University of Kentucky Libraries

PS: The poster of the event is attached.
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