In a widespread student protest in Montreal, Quebec, students are helping raise awareness of perceived unfairness in tuition hikes through social media. They have also effectively harnessed social media to organize their public protests. Perhaps most significantly, the students are doing a much more efficient job of utilizing social media channels than the government is. Nelson Wyatt’s article “Social Media Making It Easier to Organize Student Protests, Get Media Out” provides a good overview of the situation.

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Social Media is a global issue. Foong Cheng Leong provides some insight into “What Lies Ahead for Social Media” in Malaysia. The article touches on important US and Canadian cases that may impact on social media law in Malaysia where Twitter and Facebook users are growing in leaps and bounds. The article also provides a succinct summary of many of the important cases from 2011.

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The Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court recently spoke to a group of university students about the important role social media could play in the justice system. The Chief Justice comments on the role social media can play within courts and as an integral part of what we now think of as media in a larger context. Read all of her remarks in Mike Blanchfield’s article: “Chief Justice Muses About the Impact of Tweets, Facebook, and Others.”

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