Teheran, Youtube uund Social Media
Die Youtube-Seite von Chas Danner, einem 30jährigen New Yorker. Danner, so die Washington Post in einem in dept Artikel:
“got hooked when Iranians started posting photos and videos on Twitter more than a week ago. He started blogging about it on the blog that he’d had for months but had seldom used. Then he created an Iran-centric YouTube channel, uploading mostly videos taken by Iranians. A nearly pitch-black, two-and-a-half-minute video– recorded by a young Iranian speaking in Farsi about the state of her country as her neighbors shout “Allah-o Akbar” (“God is Great”) from the rooftops — moved him so much that he uploaded it in his own channel, complete with an English translation. “When we in America hear people say ‘Allah-o-Akbar,’ it’s mostly in the context of ‘Oh, that’s what terrorists say before they attack us.’ But that’s so myopic,” Danner said. “When I heard ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ in that video, I heard hope, hope for something better, hope for a better life.” As a volunteer for Barack Obama’s campaign, he felt connected, he said, “to young Iranians seeking change.”
On Friday night, he sent the translated video to Huffington Post, which hosts a continuous live blog that has attracted more than 85,000 comments. It was one of the most viewed videos on YouTube over the weekend and so far had clocked in 107,000 views.
“Ultimately, we don’t know what kind of impact all of us on the Web, from all around the world, are actually having on what’s happening in Iran,” Danner, a writing student at The New School, said in an interview. “But take us — us being the rest of the world — out of the equation. At the end of the day, people in Iran just want their voices to be heard.”
Imagine, Danner said, if Anne Frank had been able to get online.”
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