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A review by deblina
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
slow-paced
0.5
Criminally overrated, and such a slog to finish. I can't even see this being insightful in 2017 when just putting the word "Twitter" in print was enough to become a NYT bestseller.
Part of the reason might be an uncertain audience? There are recap-y bits that feel like they're for academics, and anecdotes that feel like they might be part of a blog post or something. You also just can't do anecdotes in sociology unless the point is so so clear. The milk just can't get any more skim in this discipline.
Honestly impressive to have written 275 pages without a single novel or compelling insight, but half a star for the interesting crumbs (and they are truly crumbs), namely Aristotelian four cause theory.
Part of the reason might be an uncertain audience? There are recap-y bits that feel like they're for academics, and anecdotes that feel like they might be part of a blog post or something. You also just can't do anecdotes in sociology unless the point is so so clear. The milk just can't get any more skim in this discipline.
Honestly impressive to have written 275 pages without a single novel or compelling insight, but half a star for the interesting crumbs (and they are truly crumbs), namely Aristotelian four cause theory.