here's a post reflecting on the impact of social media in egypt's insurrection through the lens of the internet shutdown.
"After the shutdown, people inside and outside of Egypt collaborated to re-create the missing networks using the still-available technologies of landlines, dial-up and ham radio. This paper argues that this use of pre-digital technologies to form the kinds of infrastructure afforded by social technologies is evidence of a radical change in people’s perceptions of their world and its connectedness.....I discuss how existing models need to become responsive to the grassroots appropriation of technology, especially the future creation of alternatives to the corporate internet. In conclusion, I analyse the phrase 'Egypts Facebook Youth' as the emblem of social media's impact". http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/socnets_with_old_tech_egypt hope it's 'creative' enough to be of interest to the list cheers dan -- [www.internetartizans.co.uk | twitter: @danmcquillan] _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
