Latest in Tag: social media Highlight
Latest in Tag: social media
Social media advice groups: virtual escapism or communal solidarityÂ
Advice groups increased recently on Facebook, giving users chance to tell concerns, seek medical, personal advice
4 in 10 students complain of lack of information about companies as workplaces: Universum GlobalÂ
The most attractive work element for Egyptian graduates is an international environment, according to Universumâs study
The Top 100 Arab Celebrities
This year, Forbes Middle East reveals its Top 100 Arab Celebrities for the first time, looking at the popularity and influence of actors, singers and TV personalities from across the region.
PayMob payments launches âAcceptâ service for e-commerce on social media
The Egyptian electronic payments company âPayMobâ, one of A15 investment companies, has launched a new product under the name âAcceptâ, which provides merchants with e-commerce services. Accept allows merchants to carry out direct selling without the need to own a commerce website, which allows retailers to utilise the network to achieve the highest revenues. Accept …
Virtual Session “Credible News Making on Social Media”
Social media credibility and latest trends in news reporting
The AUC kicked off the first-ever virtual session series at the Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism, a conference call with professor Vince Gonzales, who is an investigative journalist, professor of professional practice at the University of South California, and coordinator of the Universityâs Annenberg School for Communication and Journalismâs masters degree programme in …
Twitter uses variety of methods to protect platform and accounts: Salama
“Vast majority of tools and features rolled out are entirely controlled by the users themselves”
In Cartoon: Social Media
Gag order on judicial news aimed at judges, not media: experts
Judges instructed not to share opinions and personal issues on social media networks
Interior Ministry closes 163 Facebook pages, arrests 14 administrators
The pages are accused of inciting people to commit vandalism against state institutions and citizens
Social media users start online solidarity campaign with arrested PTA workers
The six labour leaders were disappeared and arrested last week without a warrant
Administrative Court upholds Interior Ministerâs limited surveillance project on social media
Project aims to identify people prone to be harmful for society and to analyse opinions
Social media effective business enabler for SMEs in Arab world: Orient planet
Internet users in the Arab world expected to rise to 226 million by 2018
Can social media save girls’ lives?
Stories of kidnapped girls take over Facebook, but reasons behind disappearances remain unknown
Thanaweyya amma exam leaks continue
Latest exam papers in second round of examinations photographed and posted on social media
Twitter axes 235,000 more ‘terror-related’ accounts
The social media giant says it has closed nearly a quarter of a million accounts with links to terrorism since February. The action follows growing criticism that Islamist extremists are winning a “digital jihad.”
The rise of political bots on social media
Automated social media accounts – bots – have become part of our political communication. Bot armies can influence online discourse and pick fights with users. But are all bots bad? Thomas Baerthlein reports from London.
Social media uproar over actorâs post with newest Lamborghini, Rolls Royce cars
Social media has become an inseparable part of our lives. To share one’s daily life with friends, including the food one eats, the clothes one wears, or even the place oneâs sitting in, is something that people have become familiar with long ago. Yet, some social media posts might cause debates and stir controversy, especially …
Erdogan and social media: use and abuse
After using social media to publicly quash the coup, Turkey’s government is cracking down on news sites and purging state institutions again. Here is how censorship works in the country – and how Turks react to it.
In Cartoon: Social Media community faces Military rules
Dutch woman held in Qatar since March after reporting rape charge
A 22-year-old Dutch woman has been detained in Qatar since reporting she was raped and assaulted while on vacation there in March. Her family has launched a social media campaign calling for her release.
Social media trolls in Turkey attack German parliamentarians over Armenia resolution
Death threats against German parliamentarians on social media in Turkey are raising concerns. Experts looking at threats and hate speech in Turkey, say this mob mentality is part of the dominant political culture.
Leaked exams and the demolition of institutions
I’ll start in Algeria, where the scandal of a leaked baccalaureate exam in 2016 raised controversy, prompting Algerian authorities to conduct a full investigation into the case. The Algerian ministry of education launched an investigation into circulated reports that some parties had leaked the topics of the baccalaureate exam on social media. Algerian media recently …
Activists start campaign against solitary confinement on social media
Ahmed Douma has been kept in solitary confinement for three months, lawyer Malek Adly for one month and fournalist Youssef Shaaban for eight months, says statement
MP calls for regulating social media, âespecially Facebookâ
Egypt recently blocked a Facebook service, purportedly for not allowing it to spy on users, according to Reuters
Why Belgian police turned to social media for help
Merely 14 hours before the dual terror attacks in Brussels, a Belgian police Twitter account posted an image of the man who would soon become a suspect in the airport bombings: Najim Laachraoui.
Report details internet and social media use among Egyptians
Internet does not âfacilitate interaction with governmentâ, online advertising effective despite negative attitudes, says report survey
Egypt shuts down Facebook’s Free Basics ahead of uprising anniversary
A free Facebook Internet service connecting more than three million Egyptians has been shut down by authorities in Egypt
Social media succeeded impacting decision-making in 2015
Reham Saeed programme was suspended after social media outrageÂ
Does the power of social media encourage herd mentality?
For the last two weeks, âFreska guyâ â a university graduate who roams Cairo streets carrying a box full of the popular sweets called “Freska” â was the centre of attention of social media users. With his unique fashion sense that does not align with the traditional perception of street hawkers, Freska guy, Youssef Al-Sayed …