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In "Twitter Can't Topple Dictators," a recent PressThink post, Jay Rosen voiced his exasperation at both cyberutopians and their debunkers.
Enough of these generalizations, Rosen protested, after pundits from afar gazed at the revolutionary stirrings of the Arabs of northern Africa and variously asserted that social networks caused the foment or, more often, set up such a claim as a straw man in order to generalize that revolutions had, too, occurred even before the tiniest tweet had ever been twittered.
Instead, Rosen suggested, why not have reporters on the scene tell us about the specific way in which these particular revolutions made concrete use of the technological innovations at their disposal.
Jeffrey Kofman's contribution from Tunisia on ABC about mawada.net abides by Rosen's sensible suggestion. It is a video valentine to the revolutionary ardor that a social networking site can facilitate--with the added benefit of vindicating Ethan Zuckerman's theory about the virtues of cute cats.
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