{"id":63,"date":"2011-02-05T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2011-02-05T19:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T19:35:57","slug":"articles-worth-reading-egypt-and-fax-gladwell-and-how-to-use-egypts-social-movement-jan25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/articles-worth-reading-egypt-and-fax-gladwell-and-how-to-use-egypts-social-movement-jan25\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles Worth Reading: Egypt and Fax, Gladwell and How to use Egypt’s Social Movement #Jan25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egypt’s Protestors Rediscover the Fax Machine<\/a> By Linton Weeks<\/span><\/h1>\n

But in tumultuous times, when you don’t have an Internet connection, a homely, throwback fax machine can be useful. For one thing, you can use it to reach those who do have connectivity \u2014 and can re-tweet your faxed messages.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Nation: Gladwell Gets it Wrong On Social Media<\/a> By Ari Melber<\/span><\/p>\n

Very few people\u00a0think<\/a> the Internet is an essential prerequisite to revolution. Instead, they’re exploring whether the web and networked communications open up new and effective ways for citizens to converse and organize each other in repressive societies.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How to View (And Use) Egypt’s Social Movement<\/a> By Alec Hosterman<\/p>\n

Over the past week, I\u2019ve been reading with great interest the various tweets, blogs, and articles on the growing social movement in Egypt. I\u2019ve watched the major news agency\u2019s takes on the revolt as well as viewed numerous pictures from Tahrir Square. This is rhetorical discourse at its finest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt’s Protestors Rediscover the Fax Machine By Linton Weeks But in tumultuous times, when you don’t have an Internet connection, a homely, throwback fax machine can be useful. For one thing, you can use it to reach those who do have connectivity \u2014 and can re-tweet your faxed messages. The Nation: Gladwell Gets it Wrong On Social Media By Ari Melber Very few people\u00a0think the Internet is an essential prerequisite to revolution. Instead, they’re exploring whether the web and networked communications open up new and effective ways for citizens to converse and organize each other in repressive societies. How to View (And Use) Egypt’s Social Movement By Alec Hosterman Over the past week, I\u2019ve been reading with great interest the various tweets, blogs, and articles on the growing social movement in Egypt. I\u2019ve watched the major news agency\u2019s takes on the revolt as well as viewed numerous pictures from Tahrir Square. This is rhetorical discourse at its finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-worth-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}