#Revolution?

Yes, I meant the # in the title. That's to the affect of how Twitter and Facebook are being credited with political revolutions in the Middle East.

How significant do you think social media is at making these revolutions happen? Would they have happened without social media?

As I discussed in my paper, social media is important recently of starting these events, but it's not the end all. You need the physical passion and tension in order for any revolution to occur. The radical rhetoric has to leave the digital space and spill out into the streets for any activism to come of it.

Egypt is an example. Sure, social media gets credit. But THOUSANDS still poured out into the streets of Tahrir Square to protest. Look at the violence, that couldn't have happened without tension in the streets between actual human beings.

Andrejevic says, “The technological capacity of interactivity will not, on its own, dismantle social, political, and economic hierarchies. It will not on its own foster a version of democracy based on collective control over the sharpening of political goals" (49).