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The official American establishment’s reaction to the Iranian youth venting briefly on the streets of Tehran their protest against fraudulent elections of June 2009 bore striking resemblance to a commercial campaign on behalf of the likes of Facebook, Google or Twitter. I suppose that some gallant investigative journalist, to whose company alas I do not [...]
News is in that Facebook, the social networking website, is to spend USD 1 bn buying Instagram, and I am asking myself some questions and not liking the answers. Q: What does Instagram produce? A: Filters and effects that users can apply to pictures before sending them on to their social networks. Q: OK, [...]
Like most countries in the region, Hungary hasn’t had it easy. Democracy wasn’t quite the fluffy experience the abstract western examples had seemingly shown. The economy was downright awful and for the first post transition decade, and along with the market economy came widespread existential angst, which had previously been the sad privilege only of dissidents. Even [...]
We have created a new Facebook Page for Social Europe Journal with the intention to supply it with all updates from the website. Pages are much more interactive than Groups and therefore better for frequently updated content. One problem is though that Facebook currently does not allow the transfer of a Group to a Page. [...]
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