As a follow up to our earlier posts about Iceland's experiment with web 2.0 in constitution-making, here is an article that traces out the role of social media in the Arab Spring (specifically in Tunisia and Egypt). An here is a second article that summarizes that first one, and puts it into the larger debate over the role of social media in contentious politics. For people interested in that issue, another blog (the Monkey Cage) has begun to collect a bibliography of research on social media and protest, here.
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