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The Media Revolution

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Abstract

Media do not create revolutions; people with courage do.

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  1. Rami G. Khouri, “When Arabs Tweet,” New York Times, July 22, 2010.

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  11. Cited in Philip Seib, The Al Jazeera Effect (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2008), 164.

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  12. Richard Fontaine and Will Rogers, Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, 2011), 25.

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  13. Philip Seib and Dana Janbek, Global Terrorism and New Media (London: Routledge, 2011), ix.

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Seib, P. (2012). The Media Revolution. In: Real-Time Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010902_3

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