Hossein Derakhshan @h0d3r Twitter profile

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Hossein Derakhshan

3 months

I wrote this essay based on my prison experience on dangers of 'society-of-one': Living by different personalized truths in both the mental and physical worlds, with little chance to experience the truths of others. [Open version: ]

What My Solitary Confinement in Iran Revealed About the Dangers of Pe…

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4 years

Instagram vs. Twitter.

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The most artistic protest witness video I’ve ever seen. So real it almost feels choreographed! #iran

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6 yrs gap between 4th & 5th tweet, as I was in jail. But still remembered my password! #TwitterLove @jack @twitter

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. @h0d3r has perhaps the most distressing complete twitter account history I've ever seen http://t.co/Mkie17ndys

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The most effective retaliation for Iran against Trump is for Ayatollah Khamenei to sponsor the next season of the Apprentice with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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8 years

How Social networks are turning the internet into television. Read my article.

The Guardian

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Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web

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10 years

Pardonded by Ayatollah @khamenei_ir . Freed from prison, finally after 6 years, last night. #iran

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5 years

Bolton, Pomeo, and Trump’s foreign policy.

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9 years

'Hyperlink is dying, so is the Web': My first article in English in six years, on the state of the internet today.

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9 years

Blogger @h0d3r spent six years in an Iranian jail. When he got out, the web shocked him: http://t.co/5Io2th556i

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7 years

This is such a beautiful picture from tourists visiting #Iran . If you want to defy Trump, visiting #Iran is one great practical idea.

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6 years

Recent unrests in Iran were neither entirely about inequality, nor fully about democracy. They were more about one thing: Succession to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. #Iran #IranProtests

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Ten years ago today, a few days after this tweet, I was arrested by radical hardliners in Iran over my blog, kept in solitary for 8 months, nearly executed, given 19.5 years sentence, and freed after six years. They brunt the best years of my life—I was 33 then.

Hossein Derakhshan

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is hanging out in Tehran, frustrated by slow internet connection, but generally impressed. He LOVES living in Tehran again.

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A few key facts about protesters in #iran that I've gathered so far: - Mostly male - Mostly under 25 - No respect for Green Movement and its leaders - Many slogans in favour of Pahlavist Monarchy #IranProtests

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4 years

Basically, 2020 is postponed to 2021.

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8 years

Biggest asset of Iran after a prolonged isolation is not its frozen funds, but its educated, open, wise, energetic, patient youth. #IranDeal

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8 years

Clinton emails might have led to execution of #iran -ian defector Shahram Amiri. Before these, he had 10yrs sentence.

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7 years

Best depiction of Trump ever, the other day in Tehran. #iran

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8 years

Merkel: 'Algorithms must be made more transparent.' Wow. I didn't expect this coming so soon. Bravo. #socialmedia

Angela Merkel: internet search engines are 'distorting perception'

A lack of transparency about algorithms is endangering debate, German chancellor tells media conference

www.theguardian.com

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7 years

Debate on 'fake news' (mis/dis/mal-information) is theoretically poor. We enriched it w/ Carey, Goffman, Lakoff,etc.

Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking |...

This report was published by the Council of Europe, with support from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and First Draft. Reproduced with permission...

shorensteincenter.org

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2 years

Twitter armies began in authoritarian states, but now are becoming common even in democracies.

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“As a British citizen, I’m disgusted by all these comments towards Boris. In all my years as a British citizen..” LOLZ

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“Journalism has joined the list of endangered professions: teaching it appears to be more lucrative than doing it.” My latest essay on post-news journalism.

If news is dying, who will safeguard democracy? | Hossein Derakhshan

Journalism once grounded the world in fact. Now faith, localism and entertainment rule, says the media researcher Hossein Derakhshan

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

You think the virus would erode neoliberal 'small state'? Just wait and see how it will use the shock to further erode the existing public structures.

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4 years

As someone who survived eight months in solitary (without anything to read), I am available for tutoring.

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4 years

Winners are never afraid of counting. #Election2020

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10 months

I'm excited to share my recent article where I critique algorithm-centred study of platforms, propose a new conceptual model, and ask for renewing ethnomethodology. @MediaLSE @LSEImpactBlog @LSEsociology

Rethinking platform studies: The challenges of researching algorithms and the case for renewing...

As the way the media operates becomes more and more complicated and harder to study, LSE PhD researcher Hossein Derakhshan explains why research techniques such as breaching experiments can be usef…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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4 years

For his first hundred days, Biden should only hold Ctrl-Z.

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11 months

I wrote for @WIRED on dangers of 'society-of-one': A society of one means we will live by different personalized truths in both the mental and physical worlds, with little chance to experience the truths of others. [Open version: ]

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5 years

It’s going down? What the hell! #Foucault

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5 years

This Iranian version of Game of Thrones theme music by @mimrasouli is so damn good. It reveals Ramin Djawadi’s deep connection to traditional Iranian modes and melodies. @Djawadi_Ramin

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3 years

US project for democracy promotion around the world will be a global joke for a very long time.

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7 years

Two things have worsened information disorder: theatricality of social media +ritual nature of news. @cward1e Read:

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4 years

I just asked my quarantined father, a great Persian rugs expert, about this piece of heaven in the UK PM’s briefing room. It’s a Varamin design, he said. Aren’t they (and my dad whom I miss so much) beautiful?

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7 years

Can Wikipedia survive the age of post-truth? My latest for @wired

How Social Media Endangers Knowledge

Social networks train us to focus on images and emotions, sapping the quest for knowledge.

www.wired.com

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6 years

It's been a while since moderates in #Iran have been sandwiched between Trump and Iranian hardliners' shared plots. Trump ultimately wants regime-change. Hardliners want the next presidency and ultimately to success Ay. Khamenei. Thus they tacitly assist each other. #IranProtests

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2 years

To all foreign embassies in Tehran: Boost and broaden you wi-fi reach outside your walls to allow activists to upload protest videos. Help them communicate and mobilise. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی

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8 years

Finally in print, in English. In tomorrow's Guardian.

The Guardian

@guardian

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Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web

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7 years

Glad #Iran -ian state tv doesn't fall into trap of live coverage on terrorism. Terrorism's goal is to amplify terror via tv. #IranShooting

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4 years

@maxkava @mathewi And this after two weeks.

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9 months

Algorithms have been treated as the de facto media text of platforms. I explained why this isn't helpful and proposed to discuss what every platform does: datafication and personalization. @MediaLSE @LSEsociology

Rethinking platform studies: The challenges of researching algorithms and the case for renewing...

As the way the media operates becomes more and more complicated and harder to study, LSE PhD researcher Hossein Derakhshan explains why research techniques such as breaching experiments can be usef…

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6 years

Sad reports of arrests of dozens of students in #iran . Most of them from Tehran universities. Hope they're released quickly.

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4 years

As an Iranian, I haven’t been able to focus on my studies for the past three days, due to Trump’s sever mental health issues. Have you?

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We need more poetry than data. This obsession with data and quantities has made us blind to our real problems. We meticulously count trees, their every leave and every vein, while the whole forest is on fire.

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7 years

Please sign this petition to push Medium to adopt right-to-left languages.

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10 years

Liliane. My lovely wife. Without your love and sacrifice, I would have still been in jail. You saved my life. How do I thank you.

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8 years

It's actually not bad for Americans themselves to see how it feels when another state intervenes in their elections!

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4 years

Wow!

One Perfect HEADshot

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4 years

The destruction of New York in the 1933 disaster film DELUGE features some absolutely insane model work. The tidal wave basically flattens the city in such an impressive and oppressive way.

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Coolest visitor to re-opened British embassy in #Tehran . #iran http://t.co/nUy9iJbIT4

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8 years

Selfie at a polling station on Aban st., central Tehran. My first vote since 2005. #IranElections2016 #iran

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8 years

This is the moment when all Iranian prisoners wished they had American passport!

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3 years

The new erotica!

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4 years

2019: Ethics of AI 2020: Ethics of ventilation and cremation

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5 years

News is dying, but not necessarily journalism. Here is how to save post-news journalism and thereby democracy. ⁦⁦ @EthanZ ⁩ ⁦ @mathewi ⁩ ⁦ @CraigSilverman ⁩ ⁦ @craignewmark ⁩ ⁦ @jeffjarvis ⁩ ⁦ @dangillmor ⁩ ⁦⁦ @ejpfauth ⁩

If news is dying, who will safeguard democracy? | Hossein Derakhshan

Journalism once grounded the world in fact. Now faith, localism and entertainment rule, says the media researcher Hossein Derakhshan

www.theguardian.com

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7 years

When links are abadonded, sourcing becomes rare and thereby fake news rise. Another downside to loss of hypertext in era of social media.

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7 months

It may sound bizarre, but I finally have regained the ability to read and write a little again with the 'ceasefire'. This war and specially the Western response to it has profoundly shocked, frightened and even traumatised many of us, non-Whites living in the West.

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5 years

Every newsfeed is a personalized truth.

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6 years

Telegram is not just an app in #iran . It is a free parallel internet which hardliners blame for their continuous election losses, I explained in this op-ed. @durov @telegram

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

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Iran Lives on This App

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6 years

End of news? My essay on why the crisis of journalism is beyond business models or trust—and what it means for democracy. #media #journalism

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6 years

Ultimately, robots won't be able to cry. That'll remain our monopoly.

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7 years

@cward1e Here is our recommendations for platforms such as #Facebook and #Twitter . @cward1e @coe @ShorensteinCtr Full report:

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4 years

Latest trend in Iran: QR codes on tombstones.

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How have social media changed info warfare? 1) disinformation can be cheaply amplified through committed volunteers, paid agents or bots. 2) social content is highly visual, emotional, performative. My latest w/ @cward1e for @cnn @ReliableSources

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8 years

'...more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which [is why] they change from week to week' - Neil Postman (1985)

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5 years

Such drama!

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6 years

This was a serious warning to rulers of #Iran . They either open up to demands for basic freedoms, or they will soon see a massive uprising by urban middle-class. I said to @AJStream on #IranProtests . 4/4

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7 years

Mix of social media/tv has turned intellectuals into idea-marketeers. They first see what is popular, then they produce ideas accordingly.

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5 years

The future of journalism revolves around drama, not news—this is ‘Post-news’ journalism. Read the elaborate version of my @NiemanLab 2019 prediction: #predix2019 #journalism @niemanfdn @ShorensteinCtr

Face It, You Just Don’t Care About the News Anymore

So what does that mean for democracy?

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7 months

I'm jealous of people who are working and living as if nothing is happening.

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4 years

Why does nobody see how the rise of podcasts is also linked to longer commuting time, a sign that the middle-class increasingly is unable to afford living close to work.

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8 years

He talks about bridges on the internet, but he is the very peron who destroyed them. My latest. #openweb #facebook

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6 years

- Strict policing of streets and cyberspace to enforce Islamic laws on dresscode, parties, alcohol, etc. has backlashed in deep hatred for both Islam, clerics, and regime. - An ageing ruling class is seen as power-thirsty, archaic, and out of touch with reality.

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@h0d3r

4 years

Most absurd days in Iran. Coronavirus has reached the very senior officials in charge of managing it... This is beyond sci-fi!

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@h0d3r

6 years

Telegram with its channel feature had replaced websites, forums, email, chat, blogs, and even social media in #Iran , simply because state had blocked most news or publishing platforms. It was their own fault Telegram had nearly a total media monopoly in #IranProtests

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3 years

'Filter bubble' is a myth, because human mind can never be confined. But what if our bodies started to be caged by algorithms? Read my latest article for @NiemanLab .

Mass personalization of truth

"When we live by personalized truths, our shared trust in social institutions such as science, education, or law erodes."

www.niemanlab.org

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@h0d3r

9 years

This large billboard, "The story of a flag", is now on display in a square in central Tehran. #iran

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@h0d3r

8 years

If you want democracy, resist television. That includes Facebook, which is turning internet into television. #nge16 #newsgeist #media

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@h0d3r

2 years

Soviet-ally Saddam had also planned to capture Tehran in three days, when he invaded Iran in 1980. The war took eight years and over a million lives. Ukraine feels very familiar to us. Sadly, nobody sympathised with Iran after its suicidal capture of US embassy.

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6 years

- This is more about social freedoms than economic welfare. - State media has totally failed to reach, let alone influence, millennials. - Pahlavist London-based Manoto TV has succeeded in creating an 'alternative reality' about Shah's era with emphasis on social liberties. (+)

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I joined @Twitter ten years ago today, a few weeks before I went back to Iran only to find myself imprisoned for six years over my blogging. Truth is I still blog, but on Twitter. @jack #MyTwitterAnniversary

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7 years

Trump—and others like him—is a direct result of a tv/video-addicted society. How come most people don't see this.

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@h0d3r

8 years

Robert Fisk: Saudi Arabia's executions were worthy of Isis. Will the West now stop its grovelling to its monarchs?

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4 years

Trump’s perception of a decent press conference.

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@h0d3r

8 years

Damn it Facebook, if I want so much video, I'll go to YouTube. Stop flooding newsfeed with so much crappy random videos. #algorithms

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@h0d3r

6 years

This is how I interpret this: - Hardliners' systematic undermining of reformists media, political parties, civil society, and reference groups has produced a clueless, anomic, depoliticised youth, with little knowledge or interest in history. (+)

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@h0d3r

6 years

Zuckerberg's worst crime: killing hyperlinks and thereby the web. #Zuckerbergtestimony #Facebook

Bridges Mark Zuckerberg Destroyed

Facebook advocates bridges, but it has divided the world more than ever

medium.com

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@h0d3r

8 years

"House of Cards" now playing on Iranian state television. #iran #HouseOfCards #media #tv

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@h0d3r

6 years

End of #thread . Thank you. Sorry for the typos.

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8 years

To deal w/ fake news & comfort cocoons, Facebook has to make new buttons that reflect intellect vs. emotion: agree/disagree, trust/suspect.

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7 years

Ideology is dead; now the world is ruled by algorithms.

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8 years

Also read “Death of Hyperlink: The Aftermath”, if you read my recent @guardian piece.

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@h0d3r

6 years

He has previously shown to be a deft politician who delivers. He is a jujitsu player who waits for a blow and turn its very force against the attacker. He’s displayed that in television debates in 2017, and he might pull off something similar this time.

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Impressive new report on badinformation on Whatsapp in India at @MediaLSE , by Dr Shakuntala Banaji & @Maraa_Blr .