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June 1, 2013 12:05 pm PDT
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What is the social media style ofprotest?
Zeynep Tufekci's essay analyzing the role that social media played in both the #OccupyGezi and the Arab Spring explores the differences and similarities between different uprisings, and has some very incisive things to say about what social media contributes to political change movements:It was after the Gezi protesters were met with the usual combination of tear-gas and media silence something interesting started happening.
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