Media Musings Blog Adidas Nitrocharge Shoes Archive With an end to the Arab winter

Media Musings Blog Archive With an end to the Arab winter

Facebook and Twitter have become more than social chat rooms and stalking platforms. Wael used Facebook and Twitter as tools to spark a peer-to-peer revolution. When people could not rally in the streets, they fled into the anonymous arms of cyberspace.

"If you want to liberate a society, give them the internet." - Wael Ghonim

Maybe we should be dropping iPads, not bombs Adidas Nitrocharge Shoes.

Power to the net. Photo by Khalid Albaih

But, like all good epics, there is controversy. Some say social media is not the white knight of revolution we envision, that the role of twitter has been exaggerated: The Revolution Won't Be Tweeted."

Journalist Anthony Shadid gives us this show stopper:

"It's not a Twitter or Facebook revolution. The revolution is in the streets, and it smells of blood."

Successful revolutions long pre-date Twitter. Access to the internet does not translate to DIY democracy Nike Hypervenom Phantom Shoes For Sale. From this side of the fence, devout social media advocates all look like cybertopians with delusions of global democracy. Let's also consider that the internet is not strictly democratically inclined.

The KGB used to torture people for information that now, they could just hack from an activist's Facebook profile. Social media is a two-way weapon Discount F50 Soccer Sale Online.

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