![]() IN THEIR VARIOUS FILM EXCURSIONS, the Beatles appropriated the power of "Beatlemania" and self-consciously established a cultural mythology to ensure their commercial and popular dominion. ![]() The witness video prompted the creation of a number of memorial websites, a Twitter icon, a number of Facebook groups, two Wiki pages, memorial art works, and songs commemorating Neda’s life and death. The image of Neda’s face, covered in blood, was recolored, reconfigured, and reassembled across multiple media forms. The next day, Neda’s dying images were broadcast by major television companies and made worldwide headlines including newspapers in Britain, the US, and Australia. The camera phone video was uploaded to a number of websites within hours still images from the video were captured, printed out, and used in protests at her killing and at the results of the Iranian elections in cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, and Vienna. He emailed the data to another friend in the Netherlands. Her death was digitally witnessed by a friend nearby using a camera phone: the data then went viral. ![]() Neda Agha Soltan, a young Iranian woman, was shot dead on Jon the streets of Tehran during protests following the Iranian June elections. ![]()
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