Sunday, September 25, 2011

Too Many Messages and Only One Facebook Page: April 6th Movement in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Click here to access article by Susannah Vila from Technosociology. 

I am posting this article to assist in bringing interested observers up-to-date as to what has been occurring among activists in Egypt since the demonstrations earlier this year. 
The fact that it wasn’t hard to find someone in Tahrir who would express disillusionment with A6Y is indicative of the larger challenge that he and colleagues face today: after the political sphere is broken open by uprising, how do you maintain and build upon support among the highly-wired crowd while simultaneously recruiting offline Egyptians?