The book "The Net Delusion" makes a pretty convincing case that social media's effects have been at best highly exaggerated in the west, at worst totally fabricated to push a particular agenda that shows magical western technologies as helping out those in revolutionary positions. In particular it claims very few tweets during the Tehran riots actually came from those inside Iran and were mostly western bloggers sharing information from outside. Have you read this book and if so what do you make of it? Is there hard evidence that twitter is actually being used by revolutionaries?
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The book "The Net Delusion" makes a pretty convincing case that social media's effects have been at best highly exaggerated in the west, at worst totally fabricated to push a particular agenda that shows magical western technologies as helping out those in revolutionary positions. In particular it claims very few tweets during the Tehran riots actually came from those inside Iran and were mostly western bloggers sharing information from outside. Have you read this book and if so what do you make of it? Is there hard evidence that twitter is actually being used by revolutionaries?
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