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		<title>Conclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enabled by ICT, social media are instrumental in and shaping and catalyzing social change for they allow for wide participation, continued flow of communication, and speed in public mobilization. In other words, their development has created opportunities to fuel social change through building awareness, triggering public will mobilization, encouraging civic engagement, sharing knowledge, etc. Hence, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/11/03/conclusion/</link>
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		<title>Challenges to ICT and Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There is a need for new perspectives and novel insights into integrating technological with tacit, creative and non-technological knowledge. ICT has the potential to frame the role and operation of social media based on new socio-cultural dimensions of users. Innovations in the area of ICT should be inspired by how people aspire to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/11/02/challenges-to-ict-and-social-media/</link>
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		<title>The Alteration of Forms and Practices of Social Change Caused by ICT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is undeniable that the upbringing of ICT has also caused incremental effects to development works in few decades. International development agencies are of the same opinion that ICTs can cost-effectively create and unleash the developmental force of human socio-economic and political networks (Rao 2005) although a sturdy subject is opposed in this essay to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/11/02/the-alteration-of-forms-and-practices-of-social-change-caused-by-ict/</link>
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		<title>The Employment of Social Media in Development Works and Its Co-relational Functions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; image source : www.writersfunzone.com The most common function of social media applications in development works is to build awareness through virtual campaign, fund raising, to mobilize collective resources for social change[1]. Social media applications, such as text based blogs, internet forums, social networking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/11/02/the-employment-of-social-media-in-development-works-and-its-co-relational-functions/</link>
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		<title>Can Citizen Media Meet the Web 2.0 Social Media Revolution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; image source : www.aboutsite.wordpress.com The central idea of Web 2.0 is synonymous to the term interactive (O’Reilly, 2005). In Web 2.0, everyone is invited to participate in contrast to its predecessor. With the advent of Web 2.0, consumers or individual citizens can participate in exploring, modifying, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/11/02/can-citizen-media-meet-the-web-2-0-social-media-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Have Independent Channels for Citizen Media Outlived Themselves?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[image source : www.cteresource.org The very core of social media is the citizen. Without the individuals who support and actively take part in the sharing of information or network building, the whole philosophy of social media will crumble. The term citizen (Dahlgren, 2009) signifies the notion of public, where interaction happens between individuals who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/11/02/have-independent-channels-for-citizen-media-outlived-themselves/</link>
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		<title>ICT and Social Media: New Forms of Expression and Democratic Participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; image source : www.blog_amnestyusa.org Digital culture has brought up new mediated communication patterns and practices through ICT. And it continues to alter digital culture, which in turn shapes human communication. Indeed, as Hopper (2007) points out, ICT and digital media are the catalyst for contemporary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/10/30/ict-and-social-media-new-forms-of-expression-and-democratic-participation/</link>
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		<title>ICT and Social Media: Definitional Issues and the Relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prior to understanding how ICT and social media are analyzed in relation to social change, it is first useful to briefly elucidate what ICT and social media entail and how they relate. ICT is used as a general term for diverse set of technologies which enable users to create, access, disseminate, store, manage, and communicate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/10/30/2-ict-and-social-media-definitional-issues-and-the-relationship/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to ICT and Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICT is increasingly recognized as the strongest change means humanity has to its disposal. In the recent years, advances in ICT have heralded a major transformation in human communication, giving rise to new trends of media for social communication. Situated as one of the latest of several waves of digital media, social media have introduced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/10/30/introduction-to-ict-and-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to our blog..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear respective netizens, We warmly embrace your visit to our blog, which is aimed to reflect on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and so-called ‘new media’ from a development/social change perspective. As part of our mandatory assignment in New Media, ICT, and Development (Master Program : Communication Development, Malmo Hogskola, Sweden, 2009 – 2011), theoretical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wpmu.mah.se/nmict11group1/2011/10/30/welcome-to-our-blog/</link>
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