Review of the Book: “Tweets and the Streets” by Paolo Gerbaudo

Resumo

GERBAUDO, Paolo (2012). Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism. Pluto Press. London. In “Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism” (GERBAUDO, 2012), the sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo (Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries, King’s College London) addresses the question of how communication for digital media intersects with the public rallies that were held in public spaces during the mass protests of 2011 — in Cairo, Madrid and New York.