After two weeks of news from Iran, it wasn’t a tweet from Tehran that came to symbolize the horror in a potential revolution and the real-time, cinema verite nature of its storytelling. True, it was a moment brought to you by digital technology and the Internet, but it wasn’t Twitter that made the leader of the free world search for the right words during this week’s presidential press conference. It was video — Neda Agha-Soltan’s death at the hands of an Iranian militiaman’s bullet, a forty-second snippet of camera-phone video.
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The Iran Lesson: Technology Can Set You Free
Posted by: Renay San Miguel June 26, 2009 08:30 AMAfter two weeks of news from Iran, it wasn’t a tweet from Tehran that came to symbolize the horror in a potential revolution and the real-time, cinema verite nature of its storytelling. True, it was a moment brought to you by digital technology and the Internet, but it wasn’t Twitter that made the leader of the free world search for the right words during this week’s presidential press conference. It was video — Neda Agha-Soltan’s death at the hands of an Iranian militiaman’s bullet, a forty-second snippet of camera-phone video.