Afghanistan’s intensifying war by social media has stepped up a notch with free speech activists launching a campaign using Twitter and Facebook to fight wide confusion over competing NATO and Taliban claims, as well as looming government media curbs.
TIME LightBox: Photo Essay
Soldiers Skyping
“The faces of young men gazing into computer screens using Facebook and talking on Skype epitomized this sense of boredom and longing, so I went about capturing the expressions of soldiers distracted by a technology that connects them to something abstract, yet affords them the comfort in looking home, at war.”
This is an interesting interactive graphic on where opinion leaders from political office, the media, academia and think tanks stand on the Afghan War. It was created by the Afghanistan Study Group to accompany their new report: “A New Way Forward: Rethinking US Strategy in Afghanistan.” Downloadable here.
Dead useful.
Where do you stand with everybody here?
Reblogged from The Atlantic
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