Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words
, such as the agora in ancient Greek democracy, taverns around the American Revolution, and coffeeshops during the Age of Enlightenment, which parallels how Twitter was used for the Arab Spring or the Black Lives Matter protests. You can’t fit enough dissenters in your living room to make a revolution out of close
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by Christian Rudder · 8 Sep 2014 · 366pp · 76,476 words
shark is nearby. The tags communicate to us … via Twitter. 4 And, as they do online, the users even had “handles.” 5 The Arab Spring, for example, was Twitter’s debut as a tool of global importance, and the service has also facilitated protests in Guatemala, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. 10. Tall for
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
downswing in HIV, the huge drop in infant mortality, the spread of the personal computer and the cell phone, Amazon and Alibaba, Facebook and Twitter, the Arab Spring, the spread of authoritarian nationalism and looming environmental catastrophes—we have seen them all in the last four decades. In the late 1970s, when Abhijit
Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words
/2016/01/social-media-made-the-arab-spring-but-couldnt-save-it/. 91.Carol Huang, Facebook and Twitter Key to Arab Spring Uprisings: Report, UAE (June 5, 2011), https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/facebook-and-twitter-key-to-arab-spring-uprisings-report-1.428773/. 92.Ron Nixon, U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings, N.Y
Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
by Ronald J. Deibert · 13 May 2013 · 317pp · 98,745 words
rates in social media usage are in the Middle East and North Africa, no doubt inspired by the prominent role played by Facebook, Twitter, et cetera during the Arab Spring. According to the Arab Social Media Report series, which counts users of social media in the Arab World, the number of Facebook users
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
approach is much more interested in the world of trash bins and parking meters in our mundane everyday lives than in the role of Twitter in the Arab Spring—and not because it’s parochial in outlook but because it doesn’t believe in the power of such ambitious and ambiguous questions. The
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior · 6 Apr 2020
, which were often credited for a successful demonstration instead of the actual protesters. In the West, Iran’s 2009 uprising was deemed a “Twitter Revolution” and the Arab Spring was called a “Facebook Revolution.” Western conceptions of success led to the hardship of protesters on the ground being played down. The potential threat
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words
astronaut sent a tweet from the International Space Station. Just few years later, Twitter would play a key role in helping protesters organize during the Arab Spring. Despite Twitter’s global influence, the service made almost no money. The year Costolo took over, Twitter had just $28 million in revenue, a figure he
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
related to those struggles were from outside the Arab world.17 Another study, by the US Institute of Peace, which also examined patterns of Twitter use during the Arab Spring, concluded that new media “did not appear to play a significant role in either in-country collective action or regional diffusion” of the
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group promoting a particular cause is indeed a powerful force. In some cases that may be true. While the role played by Facebook and Twitter in the Arab Spring might have been overstated, there is no doubt that social media did boost the capabilities of the antigovernment forces. But that is not the
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
by David E. Sanger · 18 Jun 2018 · 394pp · 117,982 words
the world’s most brilliant technologists convinced themselves that once they connected the world, a truer, global democracy would emerge. They rejoiced when Twitter and WhatsApp made the Arab Spring possible, and were convinced they had built the weapon that would tear down autocrats and beget new, more transparent democracies. But over time
Computer: A History of the Information Machine
by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Nathan Ensmenger · 29 Jul 2013 · 528pp · 146,459 words