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PostSubject: Revolutions get rewired in the dawning age of social media    Revolutions get rewired in the dawning age of social media Icon_minitimeSun Dec 25, 2011 6:55 pm
Neda Agha-Soltan bled to death on a Tehran street in 2009, victim of a cowardly sniper targeting protesters after Iran's disputed election. ''I'm burning, I'm burning,'' she cried as friends tried to stanch the flow of life from her chest.

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The awful last moments of her life, 40 seconds of shaky footage recorded on a mobile phone camera, were uploaded to the internet for voyeur political geeks across the world to share, marvel and fulminate over.

Hers is said to be the most watched death in history - millions of viewers on YouTube, alerted to the macabre spectacle by countless notes passed online. It was an end that marked a beginning of sorts, the lightning strike that brought the impact of so-called ''social media'' among protest movements into wider view.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/revolutions-get-rewired-in-the-dawning-age-of-social-media-20111223-1p8kk.html#ixzz1hasbaMPR
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