Social media and Arab revolts: how to make the most of technology

Social media have been -to some extent, some will correct - at the centre of the Arab spring but also at the center of the world attention to these events. Mohamed al Abdallah reports on a conference organized by Victoria University that describes new original ways of using new technologies to communicate, inform and organize.
http://ijnet.org/blog/how-arab-spring-moved-citizen-journalists-use-more-maps-html5-video-instead-text