Yigal Schleifer, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, examines the role Web 2.0 technoloogies played in the Gaza Crisis. Quotes Berkman’s Zuckerman:
some see the enlistment of the Internet in the Gaza battle as part of a troubling trend.
“We’ve been seeing the rise of what I refer to as citizen propaganda,” says Ethan Zuckerman, a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, who observed a similar online information battle during last summer’s conflict between Russia and Georgia.
“Rather than becoming the cafe of the world, where we interact on common ground, the Net has become a very effective place to rally people to your own cause and try to coordinate their actions.”
Adds Mr. Zuckerman: “I think what has become really interesting is that in an era when you have armed conflict between states, you now have people online looking to see how [they] can become part of that conflict without leaving their computers.”