[liberationtech] No Saudi Spring

[David Johnson]

We have a superb cover story this month by Madawi Al-Rasheed on the failure
of Saudi dissidents to launch a successful protest movement.

Al-Rasheed concludes:

"The Saudi case attests to the limits of cyber-utopianism, the optimism
surrounding the so-called Twitter and Facebook revolutions. The Web is
useful for publicizing action, but where the state is the only institution
that matters, effectively bringing people together offline may be
impossible."

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.2/madawi_al-rasheed_arab_spring_saudi_arabia.php

Best wishes,

David
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