Comments on: The #freemona Perfect Storm: Dissent and the Networked Public Sphere

By: Social Media and Social Change: Learnings from the Arab Spring | saadiazahidi

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:16:06 +0000

[...] her article, Zeynep Tufekci, describes the global campaign that helped release activist Mona El Tahawy. She [...]

By: Cyber-realism, Oxymoron or plain contradiction? | Mariana Filgueira Risso

Cyber-realism, Oxymoron or plain contradiction? | Mariana Filgueira Risso — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:54:33 +0000

[...] caused through social media to release a female journalist and activist from a prison in Egypt http://technosociology.org/?p=566. “Concise, fast, global, public and connected was what we needed, and for that, there is nothing [...]

By: Learning a lot about what you already know. Vol. “Arab Spring and Social Media” | two cents from lentz

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:26:56 +0000

[...] we are working with, we should look for some more data to make this case? Isn’t the story of Mona El Tahawy powerful proof of how social media change the world? Yes, it is and I feel that this is one of [...]

By: WikiLeaks, The Arab Spring and the Whole Ball of String | thepointybit

WikiLeaks, The Arab Spring and the Whole Ball of String | thepointybit — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:00:34 +0000

[...] Tufekci’s The #freemona Perfect Storm: Dissent and the Networked Public Sphere; [...]

By: Social Media and the Arab Spring « Speak to the Left Hand: A Lefty's Perspective

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:21:15 +0000

[...] roles played by Egyptian bloggers and Wael Ghonim’s activism on Facebook. Tufekci’s article The #freemona Perfect Storm is an excellent anecdotal piece on how Twitter was used to mobilize action to release an [...]

By: Exercising Leadership in the Digital Age | luearaujo.com

Exercising Leadership in the Digital Age | luearaujo.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:52:30 +0000

[...] Tufecki points out in her blog eight principles behind the #freemona campaign which help explain this phenomenon. I will only mention two of them because of their relevance to make this point. First, she says that it remains easier to organize for “no” that for complex discussions. Single-issue campaigns build upon a principle of life, Tufecki says. [...]

By: Social media and equality | lcmediapowerpolitics

Social media and equality | lcmediapowerpolitics — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:01:07 +0000

[...] Tufekci gave an insightful analysis on the role of social media in civic activism in her piece “The #freemona Perfect Storm: Dissent and the Networked Public Sphere”. Her take on social media and equality was that “social media works for prominent people [...]

By: Ming Holden: Blogs Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Le monde de l'information

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:21:02 +0000

[...] Internet-specific, but what makes them trends sometimes is, and how! One of the most powerful blog posts I’ve ever seen is the one Zeynep Tufekci put up very shortly after getting a load of what [...]

By: Do solidarity campaigns really help bloggers?

Do solidarity campaigns really help bloggers? — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:45:51 +0000

[...] When Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy was briefly detained–and beaten–by Egyptian authorities (read her account of that here), there was a concerted and fast-moving effort by her Twitter followers and friends online to quickly mobilize a solidarity campaign for her release, followed–post-release–by much discussion as to whether or not the campaign had actually helped. In Eltahawy’s case, I would wager that her relative fame and dual citizenship played a larger role than anything done online, but the global attention certainly didn’t hurt (for more on this, Zeynep Tufekci has done some fascinating analysis). [...]

By: Jillian C. York » Do solidarity campaigns really help bloggers?

Jillian C. York » Do solidarity campaigns really help bloggers? — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:29:32 +0000