News organizations in the United States did some reports on the revolution as being an 'Internet Revolution' or 'Twitter Revolution' because of protesters use of social media like Twitter and Facebook to organize themselves. I am studying social and digital media at my university and we talked a great deal about this. To what extent did protesters really use social media as part of the revolution, and how helpful was it? Do you think the revolution would have been possible without things like Twitter? Would things have been different or more difficult for protesters?
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News organizations in the United States did some reports on the revolution as being an 'Internet Revolution' or 'Twitter Revolution' because of protesters use of social media like Twitter and Facebook to organize themselves. I am studying social and digital media at my university and we talked a great deal about this. To what extent did protesters really use social media as part of the revolution, and how helpful was it? Do you think the revolution would have been possible without things like Twitter? Would things have been different or more difficult for protesters?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MeeMfjZhTA
This video talks about some of what I'm talking about.
Basically, was it really an 'Internet Revolution'?
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