Dan McQuillan at Goldsmiths has an interesting, initial take: http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/socnets_with_old_tech_egypt www.simoncollister.com | http://twitter.com/simoncollister
From: ik@mgovernment.org Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:55:06 +0100 To: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca CC: justine.abigail@gmail.com; citasa@list.citasa.org; lrainie@pewinternet.org; air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Egypt: Assessing Facebook, Twitter, social networks
Hi tehre,
I am also looking at this.. More particularly am interested in the use of mobile phones and SMS during the protests (if any one has any data / writings)..
Thank you kushchu
On 15 Feb 2011, at 23:50, Barry Wellman wrote:
It's clear to all readers of Twitter and the MSM that Facebook and Twitter played a role in the Egyptian movement that toppled Mubarak.
But how much of a role? More generally, how much were social networks involved?
There's so much speculation, that I really don't want more. BUT I would appreciate systematic evidence -- be it ethnographic, online analyses, or survey based -- even though it may be early for that to appear. I am thinking of the work that Joe Feagin did on 1968's ghetto riots; the ongoing work of Doug McAdam over the years.
I wonder if anyone interviewed the folks in Tahrir Square (besides the secret police), just as Feagin interviewed folks in Detroit jails, and would love to read some personal accounts.
In hope that things turn out well in Egypt!
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