{"id":825,"date":"2009-06-10T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2009-06-10T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:50:39","slug":"al-jazeera-on-mousavis-new-media-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/06\/10\/al-jazeera-on-mousavis-new-media-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera on Mousavi&#8217;s New Media Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/06\/09\/youtube-shows-different-faces-of-iranian-election\/\">Hamid&#8217;s post<\/a> yesterday, Al Jazeera English has a story on how the Mousavi campaign is using the Internet, including Facebook and SMS, to its advantage in the Iranian presidential election.  Money quote from the Mousavi campaign: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For us the Internet is like the air force in a military campaign.  It bombards the enemy&#8217;s positions and lays the groundwork for the infantry, our volunteers, so that they can win battles on the ground. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Minus the military analogy, this is not dissimilar from what we heard from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2008\/12\/11\/the-internet-and-politics-analyzing-the-2008-us-election\/\">Obama campaign<\/a> last year.  <\/p>\n<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TVL50UiRdkc\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Hamid&#8217;s post yesterday, Al Jazeera English has a story on how the Mousavi campaign is using the Internet, including Facebook and SMS, to its advantage in the Iranian presidential election. Money quote from the Mousavi campaign: For us the Internet is like the air force in a military campaign. It bombards the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2689,622],"tags":[6177,6178,6179],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-iran","tag-al-jaeera-new-media","tag-iran-elections-and-new-media","tag-mousavi-internet-campaign"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}