[Air-L] Egypt: Assessing Facebook, Twitter, social networks

[simon collister]

Dan McQuillan at Goldsmiths has an interesting, initial take: http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/socnets_with_old_tech_egypt


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> From: ik at mgovernment.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:55:06 +0100
> To: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Egypt: Assessing Facebook, Twitter, social networks
> 
> Hi tehre,
> 
> I am also looking at this.. More particularly  am interested in the use of mobile phones and SMS during the protests (if any one has any data / writings)..
> 
> Thank you
> kushchu
> 
> On 15 Feb 2011, at 23:50, Barry Wellman wrote:
> 
> > It's clear to all readers of Twitter and the MSM that Facebook and Twitter played a role in the Egyptian movement that toppled Mubarak.
> > 
> > But how much of a role? More generally, how much were social networks involved?
> > 
> > There's so much speculation, that I really don't want more.
> > BUT
> > I would appreciate systematic evidence -- be it ethnographic, online analyses, or survey based -- even though it may be early for that to appear. I am thinking of the work that Joe Feagin did on 1968's ghetto riots; the ongoing work of Doug McAdam over the years.
> > 
> > I wonder if anyone interviewed the folks in Tahrir Square (besides the secret police), just as Feagin interviewed folks in Detroit jails, and would love to read some personal accounts.
> > 
> > In hope that things turn out well in Egypt!
> > 
> > Barry Wellman
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