Abstract
The hype over social media has largely passed. Hardly anyone talks about Facebook or Twitter revolutions anymore. The euphoria of 2011, when the Arab Spring evoked expectations similar to those of the Eastern European revolution of 1989, has given way to disillusion and despair over the humanitarian disaster and deadlock in Syria — a ‘backlash’ that may also bring to mind how the horror of the wars in the dismantled former Yugoslavia soon overshadowed the celebration of the end of the Cold War.KeywordsSocial MediumSocial ChangePublic SphereParticipatory DemocracyRapid Technological DevelopmentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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