Belarus? Storify? This is what I like about blogging as a means of discovery. I’ve found out two things. First, there is post-election violence in Belarus, and second, that there is a new social media platform, Storify. This may have very practical implications for my teaching. First, I may use the case of Belarus as a warmup in my Sociology of War and Peace class next semester. Given what is known about the aftermath of Orange and Rose Revolutions, there are likely to be geopolitical implications here. I’m sure that we and Russia will be on opposite sides of what is occurring in Russia’s backyard, and that energy is likely to be involved. Second, Storify may be a useful tool for the explorations of the media-saturated generation from which most of my students are drawn. Like okay, people, the fact that you can retrieve information that much more quickly and in greater volume implies for me a greater responsibility to curate it into knowledge.

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Trying this as an experiment - embedding a storify about Belarus post-election violence into a Tumblr post. My apologies if it blows up your Tumblr stream.