Posts Tagged ‘revolution’
What Egypt’s revolution tells us about the nature of social media
The power of social media to organize, incite and inform was on display during the revolt in Egypt this month. At this week’s AMP Summit Series event in Washington, D.C., political strategist Joe Trippi, State Department policy adviser for innovation Ben Scott and Huffington Post senior political reporter Amanda Terkel engaged in a discussion on [...]
What does the Kyrgyz revolution say about social-media engagement?
Does a Twitter topic need to trend to have an impact? Is a topic less important if it has a deep resonance for a smaller group of people — instead of the other way around? If those seem like silly questions to you, think about the way the role of social media in the Kyrgyz [...]
