Tweets and the Streets
“At the same time, I also highlight the risk of seclusion that the use of social media can create, when their use is not accompanied by street-work and interaction with those on the other side of the digital divide, who, to use a recurrent activist expression, ‘do not have a Facebook account’” (pg. 13)
Paolo Gerbaudo wrote a book on his experiences with social media and activism. In his book he talks about twitter, Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, Facebook, and the Indignados.
For class we did a collaborative reading of Tweets on the Streets and we were to create an artistic response to our section. I chose to write a poem, so here goes…
(P.S. The Square is a kickstarter film about the Egyptian Revolution)
“The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”
Looking through the fence
Hash tags and re tweets
Who will come to their defense?
A child, a leader?
Take out the immortalizer
Which becomes the fuel feeder.
Will she be a help or harm?
I certainly do not dare
Behind the fence I am no alarm.
Pen goes on paper
Fingers press on keys
We strive to be the change
But will we succeed?
Filmernet 
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