<videovortex> videovortex Digest, Vol 42, Issue 4

[Green Jo-Anne]

Richard Grusin wrote and interesting piece about this:
http://premediation.blogspot.com/2010/06/premediation-on-high-seas.html
and, in case you missed this appalling Israeli government YouTube  
video, Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg&feature=player_embedded


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> ...although this was a rather feeble attempt by the IDF to control
> damage. Their clip at best reasserted their own constituency and even
> inside Israel it did not convince many observers. However, more to the
> point of the short article, I am not convinced that this was a good
> example of governments using social media because:
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>    1. I saw the Israeli "version" of events (in fact both sides
>       versions) in the main news on TV and not online, whereas the IDF
>       released these videos primarily on their own website. Is this
>       considered social media?
>    2. Whereas the Israeli version is definitely the government/ 
> official
>       version of the events, the same cannot be made so obviously for
>       the activists side, since it was a flotilla of international
>       activists on board and no government representatives and the  
> boats
>       where attacked by the IDF and not Pro-occupation Israeli
>       activists. There is a kind of asymmetry here.
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> Kuros
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