UCLA Prof Quantifies Egyptian Media Revolution
We had to read the following brief passage from a recent The Medialine article about the field work of UCLA assistant professor Ramesh Srinivasan (pictured) twice:
Many of the people Srinivasan interviewed [in Egypt] didn’t even know what the Internet is.
That’s right. Though the 130,000 Egyptians on Twitter and six million or so using Facebook were a critical part of the Jasmin Revolution, most Egyptians got their info and motivation from satellite dish feeds. Srinivasan, who specializes in social media, recently spent a month in Egypt and said that he stayed more than once in a “shack made of garbage with a satellite dish on the roof.”
Srinivasan also found a telling divide separating the poor people protesting and the middle class folks tweeting and Facebooking.
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