It's a book coming out of Yale but it's written for a general audience. I trace (mostly left) movements from Zapatista era to about today.
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I tried to avoid simplification but the title is so hard. Networked=imprecise, potentially limiting. Protest=too broad? Connected=vague?
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Thank you, folks! After much discussion with the press, the title is: "Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest."
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Years ago, I wrote about coups & censorship in THE FIRST para of this book. Now updating epilogue with test case!pic.twitter.com/SMVOSoM02K
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I talked of coups as motivating my interest in the internet, but never in a million years did I think I'd get to see how it would shake out.
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Or that President Erdogan's aides would first turn to Twitter/Periscope, and then to Facetime, to try to keep him from being overthrown...
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We were really torn about the title; a lot of good points by so many. Honestly, I'd rather write 10 chapters than come up with one title.
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But the book isn't about everything; and while networked is an imperfect term, so is every other term we debated. Networked it is...
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Does Twitter in the title limit scope? Maybe. But it conveys how the physical and digital are all intertwined—not either or. So it stayed.
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Press is going with Twitter and Teargas.
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