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Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki. When I tell people I study social media, politics and social movements, I often get a version of the question: “But there were protests before Facebook?”

Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki

Sure, I say, but how did people hear about it? Word-of-mouth is, of course, one way but [in the modern era] [and especially in repressive settings] it’s almost never never fast enough to spread protest of news quickly enough–remember, a political protest is a strategic game with multiple actors including a state which often wants to shut them down. Too slow diffusion of information, and your people will get arrested faster than they can show up at all.

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