#fssm2012 ghassan hasbani: "not any USE of docial media is USEful"

#fssm2012 have we ever thought about the word "friend" on facebook? No one can have 472 friends in reality.

#fssm2012 @GhassanHasnani "access of info. Is a LEGAL activity that LEGAL authorities can exercise"

#fssm2012 ???using social media to promote disconnecting from virtual socializing to connect in real life???

#fssm2012 user-generated content platforms rely on scaling a large user-base of PROSUMERS (producers/consumers at a time)

#fssm2012 "social media is an ideal ACTIVIST medium as anyone can say anything without media GATEKEEPERS" E. Siapera (2005)

#fssm2012 the main political significance of social media is in the way they remove the monopoly of communication and place it with citizens

#fssm2012 social media= communication from one-to-many to many-to-many

#fssm2012 social media= communication shifted from producer-driven to receiver-driven

#fssm2012 social media has proliferated as a Rhizome system growing in a de-centered manner & giving chances to entiities to EXIST & SPEAK

#fssm2012 www activism activities r: awareness/advocacy, organization/mobilization & action/reaction. I think this is how cheyef7alak works

#fssm2012 even though social media r not the base of revolutions but they certainly TRIGGER

#fssm2012 even if i only LIKE a link i'm performing an activist activity as i'm exposing the link to hundreds of so-called friends

#fssm2012 Moe my grandpa uses social media!!

#fssm2012 users on social media r PROSUMERS (the producers & consumers) how credible uploaded info. would be?

#fssm2012 i can be a "credible" rumors source on twitter!

#fssm2012 i can be Obama on twitter :P

#fssm2012 the main political significance of social media is in the way they remove the monopoly of communication and place it with citizens

#fssm2012 shouldn't copyrighting be discussed in the context of free speech conference today? To whom the data on the cloud belong in fact?

#fssm2012 concerning fake accounts on social media, how would u know that an account is fake in all cases?