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Reviews

• “Linda Herrera has written the best treatment of social media and contemporary politics that I have read. Her Revolution in the Age of Social Media avoids—indeed punctures—all of the clichés and inflated claims that tend to dominate this discussion. Herrera provides a tremendous historical case study of the use and importance of social media in the Egyptian revolution of 2011. As she lived in Egypt for years through the revolution, Herrera provides insights I have never seen elsewhere. She provides a nuanced yet clear vision. All treatments of social media and politics going forward will go through this book.”

  – Robert W. McChesney, author of Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

• “Thus far the most readable and exacting account of the interstitial spaces between the street and internet in the Egyptian uprising … no stone is left unturned as Herrera offers an unwavering deconstruction of everything—from the simple messianism of Wael Ghonim to the conspiratorial obsession of Tariq Ramadan. I have no doubt this book will be an instant classic.”

  – Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University

• “Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet, is expansive and curious.”

  – Globe and Mail