[CITASA] Egypt: The First Internet Revolt?

BW
Barry Wellman
Fri, Jul 1, 2011 8:19 PM

FOlks,

Xiaolin Zhuo, me, Justine Yu have just published the abovenamed article in
the July 2011 Peace Magazine.

http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v27n3p06.htm

It discusses the many ways in which ICTs did -- and did not -- facilitate
the Jan-Feb 2011 Egyptian revolt. It argues that Facebook etc provided a
sense of modernity, and shows some of the external connections that the
activists had years before the revolt. It also does a Tilly-esque
discussion of internal networks -- this was NOT a spontaneous gathering of
1M Egyptians in Tahrir Square.

And we carefully call it a Revolt, and not a Revolution (too premature to
say that) or the newspaper-hype "Arab Spring" (premature in
circumstances and calendar in January-Feb 2011??)

The colour pix in the magazine are great (thank you Zeynep Tufekci and
Karim Marold). Alas, Peace Magazine's own website doesn't show them --
text only.

But if you ask nicely, we'll send you a full pdf, complete with pix.
Email first author Jo-Lynn Zhuo zhuo.jolin@gmail.com,
(It's her and Justine's first publication, btw.)

PS: This 4.5 pager developed out of a discussion in the forthcoming
Rainie-Wellman Networked book (Jan 2012)

Barry Wellman


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FOlks, Xiaolin Zhuo, me, Justine Yu have just published the abovenamed article in the July 2011 Peace Magazine. http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v27n3p06.htm It discusses the many ways in which ICTs did -- and did not -- facilitate the Jan-Feb 2011 Egyptian revolt. It argues that Facebook etc provided a sense of modernity, and shows some of the external connections that the activists had years before the revolt. It also does a Tilly-esque discussion of internal networks -- this was NOT a spontaneous gathering of 1M Egyptians in Tahrir Square. And we carefully call it a Revolt, and not a Revolution (too premature to say that) or the newspaper-hype "Arab Spring" (premature in circumstances and calendar in January-Feb 2011??) The colour pix in the magazine are great (thank you Zeynep Tufekci and Karim Marold). Alas, Peace Magazine's own website doesn't show them -- text only. But if you ask nicely, we'll send you a full pdf, complete with pix. Email first author Jo-Lynn Zhuo <zhuo.jolin@gmail.com>, (It's her and Justine's first publication, btw.) PS: This 4.5 pager developed out of a discussion in the forthcoming Rainie-Wellman Networked book (Jan 2012) Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________