Comments on: It’s Not Twitter or Facebook, It’s the Power of the Network

By: Carol Stephen

Carol Stephen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:01 +0000

Twitter doesn’t magically help the victims of repression, but real-time networked communication sure does! http://t.co/qXAw2t7y

By: Journalism Gets Better the More People Who Do It: Tech News and Analysis «

Journalism Gets Better the More People Who Do It: Tech News and Analysis « — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:31:19 +0000

[...] from a plane landing in the Hudson river to earthquakes, and more recently uprisings and revolution in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Traditional journalists still have a role to play as well, in part because all of that [...]

By: Does the World Really Need Another Twitter?: Tech News and Analysis «

Does the World Really Need Another Twitter?: Tech News and Analysis « — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:09:28 +0000

[...] an increasingly important way of distributing information — one so important that it has played a central role in popular revolutions in the Middle East and elsewhere. Although proposals for an alternate [...]

By: Monday Morning Quickie – What Can HorseBiz Learn From The Egyptian Revolution? | No Biz Like Horsebiz / KempEquine

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:18:36 +0000

[...] here. I also found a very good blog post (thanks, WordPress Fresh Press!) at Gigaom.com where author Mathew Ingram points out that Twitter or Facebook by themselves didn’t cause the Egypti…, leveraged by the network itself and a few key [...]

By: Malcolm Gladwell: Social Media Still Not a Big Deal: Tech News and Analysis «

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:01:44 +0000

[...] be 100-percent beneficial, as Morozov alleges some “cyber-utopians” believe, but they clearly have altered the landscape — and in many cases this appears to have tipped incipient revolutions in places such as [...]

By: What the Quick Bar Affair Says About the Future of Twitter: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:17:26 +0000

[...] a business, with a focus on how it can enable real-time publishing for everyone, including those fighting oppressive governments around the world — that it is jarring for users whenever the company does something cold or [...]

By: What the Quickbar Affair Says About the Future of Twitter: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:40 +0000

By: Why the Medium Is Not the Message: Tech News and Analysis «

Why the Medium Is Not the Message: Tech News and Analysis « — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:03:19 +0000

[...] because most of the news alerts are coming from average citizens (as I’ve said before) and are coming over Twitter or Facebook doesn’t degrade its value as news. The new medium (Twitter, Facebook) has replaced the old medium [...]

By: Revolutionary – The impact of networked technologies on the unrest in #Egypt [30Jan11] | The Book

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:41:21 +0000

[...] As Mathew Ingram has highlighted, “the real weapon is the power of networked communication itself. In previous revolutions it was the fax, or the pamphlet, or the cellphone — now it is SMS and Twitter and Facebook.” [...]

By: >A Twitter Revolution? Not so fast… | Wings Over Iraq

>A Twitter Revolution? Not so fast… | Wings Over Iraq — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:31:38 +0000

[...] through fax machines. And though much has been written about the Facebook-organized protests, some might even argue that by shutting off the Internet, Mubarak fueled the protests. Lacking up-to-date coverage of [...]