Tech Evangelists Shouldn’t Write Off Social Media in Egypt
In the Egyptian protests and attempts to overthrow their dictatorial president, social media has played a crucial role. But even some technological evangelists are trying to reign in the rhetoric that says that social media has played a huge role. It’s surprising, and generally the intentions of these people are honorable: they don’t want social media role to trump that of human agency, and the critical mass of people that have gone out on the street and protested. After all, in Egypt the Internet was taken down by the government who was attempted to silence dissent by any means. Many people would point to this act as evidence that social media and the Internet is such a threat to governments now that they are resorting to cutting it off completely. This would again seem like a reason to prove that social media was important. Tech evangelists still write off social media, often seeing it to be only one method of getting people out onto the streets.
It’s surprising that many of these people are trying to stop the media from calling it the Twitter or Facebook revolution. They don’t want the role of social media to be overstated in order to allow it to permeate the public conscious without becoming overhyped. But social media’s role in terms of organizing protests has been just huge. Like how Galvan Research advise people playing the stock market, social media plays a similar advisory role. In some uprisings it will play a more important role than in other. In Egypt, it seems to be key.
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