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The Changing Face of Arab Blogs
Marc Lynch has an interesting post called “Brotherhood of the blog” on the Guardia
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Marc Lynch has an interesting post called “Brotherhood of the blog” on the Guardian’s comment is free. From the article:
This is an interesting trend to watch since many may argue that the Muslim Brothers represent the broader Arab (or Muslim) opinion. When Ethan Zuckerman, a co-founder of Global Voices (GV) was in Doha last year one of the things we discussed was that the GV bloggers (while fantastic) were not neccessarily representative of the broader communities that they came from. My concern was that since they are mostly English speaking and affluent (at least affluent enough to use an internet cafe) and thus may not represent the same aspirations as the “Arab Street” (or South American Street or African Street…). Of course, the good folk at GV are aware of this and are currently looking to hire an Outreach Director to bring others into the conversation. And now that the Muslim Brothers from Egypt are blogging, it would be interesting to see how much weight Global Voices (and other bloggers) give to these voices. |
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