The Democracy of Social Media

Hosni Mubarak

Khaled Said

We Are All Khaled Said

Injustices that provoke shared resentment and anger are often necessary to overcome barriers of fear and trigger actual participation in collective action
Merlyna Lim, Clicks, Cabs, and Coffee Houses: Social Media and Oppositional Movements in Egypt

Twitter

Communications of the ACM Magazine May 2012

Revolutions have always been social and involved media

- Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal

2011

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