What is it about?

It analyses how social media was used by the government to crush dissent and criticism in the 2011 Bahrain Uprising

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Why is it important?

Because it highlights dangers of social media, debunking notions that social media is simply a positive, democratizing force

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This page is a summary of: Social Media, Surveillance and Social Control in the Bahrain Uprising, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, April 2013, University of Westminster Press,
DOI: 10.16997/wpcc.167.
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