Egypt’s experimental moment: contingent thoughts on media and social change
Guest Author: Mark Allen Peterson In February 2008, 27-year old human resources specialist and El-Ghad Party volunteer Israa Abdel Fattah launched an invitation in Facebook for Egyptians to support the...
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Guest Author: Annabelle Sreberny (via OECD Insights, 28 March 2011) So the joke goes that Mubarak dies and meets Nasser and Sadat in the afterlife. They ask him, “were you poisoned or shot?” Mubarak...
View ArticleMorozov vs.Tufekci on the Internet and political change
By Ethan Zuckerman via My heart’s in Accra (13 April 2011) Evgeny Morozov has emerged as one of the leading critics of the idea that the internet is a useful tool for social change, suggesting in his...
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