Events / August 6th, 2010
Date: 8.30pm Sat, 7 August 2010 @ CHAI
Title: Social Media 4 Machas
a conversation with Grace Chin (PopWire), Hasbeemasputra Abu Bakar (Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia) & Zurairi Abd Rahman (Unscientific Malaysia).
Bringing together 3 social media projects that have been initiated over the past year, this conversation will present groups & individuals who are harnessing virtual connections for powerful forms of engagement, as opposed to just a medium of staying on touch with friends and peeking into their daily activities.
Facilitated by PopTeeVee’s Hardesh Singh, this event will also speculate on the recent and upcoming impact that social media will have on news, journalism, activism, collaboration and innovation.
Grace Chin is the Editor of PopWire, a newswire of information and ideas crowd-sourced from the blogosphere and social media networks. She was formerly a writer with The Edge.
Hasbeemasputra Abu Bakar is an activist with Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia, a non-racial, non-partisan initiative for the betterment of the nation that emerged out of discussions between bloggers in the post-March 8 landscape.
Zurairi Abd Rahman is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Unscientific Malaysia, a Malaysian community that promotes science, scepticism & freethought. They cover issues of science, religion, superstitions, civil rights, supernatural hogwash and other poppycock.
