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Intifada Iphone App pulled off Itunes

Via Scoop.itMad Max Societies: Post Apocalyptic Technology and Society

The Intifada is not televised, it is now spread via Iphone apps…

“US computer giant Apple has culled a Palestinian application from its iPhone offerings at the request of Israel, which said it incited people to violence against the Jewish State.

The Arabic-language app ThirdIntifada, released by Apple just days ago, provides users with details of upcoming anti-Israel protests, access to news articles and editorials, and links to Palestinian nationalist material.

In calling on Apple to act decisively, Israel’s public diplomacy minister Yuli Edelstein said the iPhone app was “anti-Israel and anti-Zionist”, and warned that it could “unite many towards an objective that could be disastrous”. ”

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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