A spirited argument, tinged by technological determinism, has - TopicsExpress



          

A spirited argument, tinged by technological determinism, has developed on the extent of the role played by social networks in movements that have sometimes been described as revolutions 2.0. In order to understand the role of the Internet in the Arab revolutions, the Indignados and Occupy movements or the democratic movements in Russia, Turkey and Brazil, one needs to transcend glib binary oppositions between the ‘virtual’ world of cyber-activism and the ‘real’ world of mobilization on the streets and squares.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:00:00 +0000

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