Cameran Ashraf
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Cameran Ashraf is an Iranian-American digital activist and doctoral student at UCLA. His doctoral research focuses on the geographies of information, social movements, politics, and diaspora using Iran's recent post-election unrest as a case study.
Among other projects, he has worked on protest video distribution resulting in nearly 3 million video downloads from Iran. He is co-founder of Internet advocacy NGO AccessNow.org and Expression Technologies, a non-profit organization working directly with activists in censored and repressive regimes.
He tweets at http://www.twitter.com/cameranashraf
Latest posts by Cameran Ashraf
17 April 2013
The Psychological Strains of Digital Activism
Iran's Green Movement marked one of the first large-scale movements where new media served as a platform for coordination and communication between activists and played a vital role in showing the world what was happening on the ground. The post offers a first-person narrative on this experience from Cameran Ashraf, an Iranian-American citizen living in the United States who helped facilitate communication and information exchange for activists and protesters during this period.
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