What are the determinants that a social media campaign during a period of political unrest will be effective?
After watching a video debate (which started off talking about cyber war, then ventured into broader discussions around the use and viability of social media during a political emergency), between Ethan Zuckerman and Evgeny Morozov, it made me think of the current book I’m reading (Wars, Guns & Votes by Paul Collier). In it Collier talks about the inverse relationship between democracy in the bottom billion and democracy in the developed world. Basically, democracy is counterproductive in most countries where people live on less than $7/day.


