Be inspired! And learn how social media tools helped people to overcome psychological barriers to acting against the government, to report human rights violations, to counter official messages, to collaborate and ultimately to overthrow an entrenched regime. Viva La Revolución!
For more, see this newly updated collection of articles related to the internet and the North African revolutions, plus Epolitics.com’s own How Social Media Accelerated Tunisia’s Revolution: An Inside View.
– cpd
the lybia situtation doesn’t bode well for the successful social media uprises in Egypt and Tunisia. it appears that you also need a government that is not violent or at least isn’t in the mood to be violent for this to work well. start killing a bunch of anti’s, shut down the social communication, then it gets a little touchy if a “revolution” will work.