Ashira Ramadan on Social Media in Palestine

In this video from WOW Bites, part of the Women Of The World festival weekend in London, United Kingdom, this presentation describes the BBC Media Action programme with Palestine TV to increase the use of social media and women's participation in using, creating, and working on technical production aspects of social media. The description includes the use of research, for example, focus groups, to analyse women's purposes and preferences in using social media.

Click here to read a blog, "Palestinian women tweet to the world" by Ashira Ramadan, associated with this presentation, from the South Bank Centre Blog site. In it Ramadan gives the diverse media usage examples of a Palestinian women using Facebook to promote her bakery business and another tweeting photographs of soldiers as she dodges their teargas canisters.

Click here to read a BBC Media Action blog, "Palestinian women tweet to the world".