Turning 'Neda' into an icon is not the answer.
The newspapers and the concerned choirs of the social web are all singing the same song - Neda, the Iranian woman shot and killed in Tehran is “becoming an icon”.
But to flatten her death down into a two-dimensional message on a placard is to reduce her life too. Making this woman into a symbol takes away from the complexity of her human experience and in an odd way overlays meaning on to a fundamentally senseless act.
