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Journalism Chair Andrew Mendelson and FMA Grad Student Aghigh Ebrahimi Bazaz on Fox29
6/20/2009
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New social media are helping to spread information about protests in Iran. One person who has used these new tools to monitor the situation in Iran is Iranian-born graduate student Aghigh Ebrahimi Bazaz, who goes to Temple's TECH Center daily for online updates. "This is how I keep tabs -- pretty much all social media," she said. "Every time that there's a major event, technology is used in some new way." Andrew Mendelson, chair of Journalism Department, says some forms of digital communication have escaped government crackdowns. "Like water, information will find a crack and get out," he said. "That's the most exciting aspect of this."