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  • Essay / Tweets and the streets: social media and the contemporary...

    The first is the Egyptian uprising, then the Spanish outrages and finally the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in the United States. While clarifying his thoughts, Gerbaudo divides his book into five chapters in addition to the introduction and the 194-page conclusion. In the chapters he explains in detail the three different manifestations and how connectivity becomes collectivity. I noticed that the language of the book is informal, because in addition to other sources, the author includes his own ideas written in the first person. Additionally, I think it is aimed at a specialized audience that uses social media for political action, as it specifically chose the three protests from different parts of the world that have similar strategies. I believe I am part of this specialized audience since I participated in the Gezi Park protests during which Twitter was widely distributed.