TWITTER TO COUNTER MIS-REPRESENTATION

Some thoughts and questions leading my new direction...

-how groups have been often misrepresented in the past
-who has the right to represent or report on an event/person/situation?
-what are the power politics at play and responsibilities of those for representing others?

-how people are taking representation back into their own hands, dictating their side of the story and not letting someone else speak for them, or depict merely a biased side
-the need to understand power in a broader cultural or symbolic term (ie. the power to represent someone or something in a certain way, within a certain ‘regime of representation’)

Some authors:
- Hall’s argument is that 'representation is the way in which meaning is given to things depicted'. how then can twitter be used to provide people with a way to represent themselves? as an alternative to the media's (mis)representation of event during the g20? or the media underrepresentation/complete lack of representation in Iran?
-Coleman looks at representation mostly through politics, however offers a lot of interesting notions on photographic representation and blogging

-Iran – govt was the only actor who was ‘allowed’ to depict (or completely neglect the depiction of) the post-election protests since the media was banned. How did protesters take it into their own hands to get word out to the world on what was going on?
-Neda
-G20 – how was the media representing the protests? How does this differ from what protesters felt or dealt with? How did people use Twitter to spread the word on what was really going on?
-focus on specific case - TBD
-make the case for why these cases are used,
-look at the context, then justify the particular case, explain the case, compare both cases (Iran and G20) – what do the similarities and differences tell us about things