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kathleenitpdx's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
meekorouse's review against another edition
1.0
I really didn’t like this book. It’s not a bad book & I suppose it’s a great book if you want to get wad about digital tools & social media & activism.. if you like hearing old hippies talk about the good old days, you can read about new activists insinuating themselves through the Twittersphere.. But this is not my bag & I was dragged through this book gleaning what INFO Community tidbits I could. I didn’t need to read the whole thing for that, but for he assignment. This is right up there with Malcolm Gladwell for books I could have lived without. Sorry, not sorry.
kserra's review against another edition
4.0
Tufecki's book is an interesting exploration of some important themes - protest, power, digital technologies. But it sometimes feels a bit all over the place and parts felt shoehorned in.
amlecher's review against another edition
5.0
This is the type of book I really appreciate - it looks at the many facets of a complex problem and doesn’t try to simplify it. The benefits and drawbacks are discussed and I found it fascinating.
binayocheved's review against another edition
slow-paced
4.0
dense & analytical, but highly informative. illuminated some trends i’d not noticed & put words to some i had.
bobbert's review against another edition
4.0
4 stars for interesting and thoughtful, but not enlightening in most respects. In a way, this felt like a broad coalition of ideas I was already familiar to an extent with put into words. Regardless, a good read.
It also made me realize how little social movements I’m aware of in the world; many of the movements mentioned only caused echoes in my head… I have to read more, I suppose…
It also made me realize how little social movements I’m aware of in the world; many of the movements mentioned only caused echoes in my head… I have to read more, I suppose…
anlekaha's review against another edition
4.0
This book was published in 2017 and is even more relevant today. It discusses many of the social opportunities and dangers afforded by social media; she focused on protest movements but the points are widely applicable. She showed that there is no easy solution, no magic formula to keep the good of social media while excising the bad because much of both is rooted in human behavior that well predates technology.
The author is an academic and someone with personal experience in protests. The first- and second-hand descriptions of protests around the world were intriguing and easy to follow (plenty of background and explanation). Unfortunately, in the analysis the language got overly academic at times and bogged my reading pace. Interspersed clever analogies and historical context and comparisons helped to relieve this. The writing was worth pushing through and the book left me with plenty to think about.
The author is an academic and someone with personal experience in protests. The first- and second-hand descriptions of protests around the world were intriguing and easy to follow (plenty of background and explanation). Unfortunately, in the analysis the language got overly academic at times and bogged my reading pace. Interspersed clever analogies and historical context and comparisons helped to relieve this. The writing was worth pushing through and the book left me with plenty to think about.