Notes from the meeting

Met with my supervisor to discuss some issues and topic ideas. Here is a brief summary of the points taken away from that meeting:

1. Are the particular cases (i.e. Iranian Revolution) just hype? Are these actually giving 'word' to the poorest? Or are they just secluded cases which gives false hope to the idea that Twitter can be revolutionary?

2. How does this connect to development and could it be used by the development world?

3. More theoretical work - look at memory, how is institutional memory or general memory changing the way we do or see things? Has the concept of memory and what it entails changed over time? Has Social Media been the driver behind this change, if one does exists?

4. Pre-social media and post-social media: look at how history is privileged and is history in social media going to be any less privileged than past histories? Look at the demographics of Twitter users. Does this reflect a 'voice from below' or are most users still representational of the upper-middle elitist white class?

5. NEDA - documentary on HBO

6. Wired.com - check it out for interesting look at the wired world we live in.



Voila, just a few key points I took away from that meeting. I will particularly look at #4 for the focus of this project, but all the other points do provide some interesting insight as to what the social media world has become.