FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond.

FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond.

While the tendency in the West to refer to the Arab Spring movements as ‘Twitter Revolutions’ has passed, a liberal discourse of ‘liberation technology’ (information and communication technologies that empower grassroots movements) continues to influence our ideas about networked participation. Unfo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ulises A. Mejias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Humanities Press 2012-07-01
Series:Fibreculture Journal
Subjects:
market
arab spring
twitter
media
social media
networks
activism
culture
utopia
speculative
futures
participation
Online Access:http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-147-liberation-technology-and-the-arab-spring-from-utopia-to-atopia-and-beyond/

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