Citizen Media & the Iranian Protests: Exhibit A

Written by Mary Joyce on June 22, 2009 – 6:09 pm -

One the big stories with regard to digital activism in Iran has been the use of citizen media to disseminate information about the protests (see references here, here, and here).  The picture above, from the front page of today’s New York Times is putatively an image of the daughter of reformist cleric Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, but could just as easily be an illustration of the new media environment: no less than eight cell phones and digital cameras (red circles) are recording the event the New York Times reporter was photographing.  (For a large version of the photo, click here.) It’s old print media and new digital citizen media juxtaposed in a single image.

image source: New York Times


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3 Responses to “Citizen Media & the Iranian Protests: Exhibit A”

  1. By Todd on Jun 22, 2009 | Reply

    Would be interesting to see the photos that were taken by these people. Any links?

  2. By Mary on Jun 22, 2009 | Reply

    Hi Todd – yes, it would be interesting to see the other images, but I don’t know what happened to them….

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