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...campaign is not without precedent. Social media was embraced by activists during the protests after the contested 2009 presidential election in Iran, when users of Facebook and Twitter made their profile photos green - the color of the Iranian opposition...
...draw a straight a line from something like the painting of a mural in the Bronx for a missing friend to what you now see on Facebook," said Sree Sreenivasan, a professor of social media at the Columbia School of Journalism...
...year old Buenos Aires-based activist. "Today, the internet is a place for social participation, right alongside rallies. But the virtual world is real, and many of us spend hours of our daily life here. Therefore, you can protest here too." (See how criminals in U.K. use Facebook to harass victims...
...Facebook was unable to quantify the number of users in Argentina who had taken down their photos to join the campaign, but more than 36,000 Facebook users had signed up for the virtual event "Photoless for the Missing" by day's end. (See the top 10 tech trends...
...Facebook event organizer, the social network was a natural forum to utilize for social activism...