Frank Rich’s NYT column from Feb.5, “Wallflowers at the Revolution,” provides a nice entrance into the debates around media coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East, particularly in terms of the use of social networking technologies. Rich argues in part that the emphasis in the American media on the use of Facebook and Twitter for organizing is a “form of implicit, simplistic Western chauvinism.”
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