Global Voices Online
saleh on December 13th, 2005We’d like to thank Global Voices Online for publicising our Journal entries whilst in Palestine. Global Voices Online is an initiative by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at the Harvard Law School.
GVO tracks and calls attention to conversations and points of view around the world from bloggers described as ‘bridge bloggers’, people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Describing itself as ” … your guide to the most interesting conversations happening on blogs outside of the United States”"
The aim is to foster better international communication and understanding between ordinary people using web technologies including weblogs, wikis, podcasts, tags, aggregators and online chats which are used to call attention to conversations and points of view that will help shed new light on the nature of our inter-connected world.
Ethan Zuckerman from GV adds “A lot of the parts of the world we’re very interested in are also places where the Media has a real tendency to report on the big events , such as ‘The leader has done this.’ There is much less reporting on the events on the ground, the stories affecting peoples’ lives. You generally get journalism that is leader focused, process focused, but doesn’t look with much detail. One of the things that Global Voices does is let people have a very different window into what is going on in the country, in those cultures. It is hard to get out of the newspaper an answer about why people were marching out on the streets. You can get that on blogs.”
