Russia: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted and Facebooked and YouTubed -- Time
When Russia's protest movement came alive last month, bringing tens of thousands of people onto the streets of Moscow, it only took an Internet connection to realize that its most vital cogs and gears were online. There had to be hundreds if not thousands of them, like an army of virtual worker ants, doing the grunt work that goes into a revolution in the 21st century. Someone had to be facilitating the movement's Facebook groups, making its YouTube clips, tweeting and blogging its propaganda. And so there were. On a snowy night in December, dozens of them got together at a bar called Masterskaya, just down the street from the Kremlin, and turned the place into a buzzing revolutionary workshop.
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My Comment: My nationality is Russian, so I love seeing these trends. Political/economic/social information is what is lacking in Russia ... and the world wide web is now changing this for the good.
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