Jamaica: Social Media is the Message  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“How messages of revolution are transmitted is crucial…this is why…powerbrokers have always tried to control the media, whether these were the drums of the enslaved signaling revolt on Caribbean plantations or more contemporary forms of broadcasting which now include Twitter and Facebook”: Annie Paul thinks Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about the significance of the role of social media in the Egyptian protests.