Julie Wilson and I created the website www.teachingmedia.org to help college-level, media studies faculty and instructors share teaching ideas and resources such as recommended readings, media clips, assignments, and syllabi. We're trying to create an online commons for media studies pedagogy. In addition to housing an ongoing database of teaching ideas, we're periodically posting calls for ideas about specific topics. Our first topic: In the wake of recent revolutions and popular protests in Moldova, Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt, there has been a lot of speculation about the relationship between these social uprisings, authoritarian states, and social media applications such Facebook and Twitter. How might you examine this relationship in an undergraduate media studies class? Have you come across any texts, articles, or podcasts you’d recommend assigning? Any ideas for special assignments or exercises? Please visit www.teachingmedia.org to join this discussion or contribute other teaching ideas to this collective resource. Tony Nadler PhD Candidate, Communication Studies University of Minnesota