Radiohead's Ed O' Brien offers an alternative perspective. On the band's Dead Air Space blog, he waxes lyrical about the potential for such sites as a means of peaceful protest.
What have twitter and facebook ever done for us?
Obviously, keeping in touch with everyone, but I have to say I have become increasingly excited over the last 3 months about the possibilities of this form of communication.Yes, I am very slow out of the blocks. It's in the arena of public protest that it seems twitter and facebook are increasingly the means by which popular movements throughout the world are able to come together and mobilise.
I have been so moved by the peaceful Jasmine revolution in Tunisia; The anti-Government demonstrations centred on Tahrir Square in Cairo.. Social networking has helped facilitate the freedom to assemble peacefully and express oneself. Equally in Britain it seems to be having a similar effect in helping essential protests being organised by students and groups such as UK Uncut against the Government's ill thought out cuts...
Well done those people!
Ed.
