Paper presented at the Societing Summer school 2011, Cava dei Tirreni, Salerno, 2011.

1. Brief History of media-supported Revolutions
1517 Protestant movement: Gutemberg printing press revolution
1789 French Revolution: newspaper & leaflets revolution
1968 Paris may days: transistor/wallpaper revolution
1968 Italian 68: autographic stencil (ciclostile)
1979 Iran: small media revolution (audiocassettes)
1989 “La Pantera” Italian student movement: fax “revolution”
1999 Seattle No Global movement: mailing list/first internet
revolution
2011 North Africa: social media “revolution”

2. Paris mediasphere May 1968
public
phones
wallpapers
transistor
graffiti
receivers square slogan
streets
people
Radio Europe 1
Radio Luxemburg
: bypass revolution: protesters bypassed institutional media
(national public radio and television broadcasters)
:: tactical use of the media

3. “Battle of Seattle” mediasphere 1999
cell
phones
mailing square World
lists streets media
people
local
web
indipendent
radio
fm/am radio
: bypass revolution: protesters bypassed institutional media
(national public radio and television broadcasters)
:: tactical use of the media

4. Tunisian mediasphere 2011
cell
tunisian phones
diaspora
Web radio
(Radio square
streets
SB Zone)
people
world
bloggers media
local clandestine
FM radio
(Radio Kalima)
: bypass-revolution: protesters have bypassed institutional media (national radio and
television broadcasters)
:: Twitter excelled as a medium in getting the message out, in driving mainstream
media coverage and in connecting activists on the ground with multipliers in the West
::: tactical use of the media
:::: multiplatform/networked flow of communication
2-3 cose che ho imparato sulle reti sociali:
networked public: persistence, replicability, la scalability (Kony2012), searchability (D. Boyd 2011:46)
+ approccio drammaturgico ai media (di nuovo, Kony2012)
+ studio delle reti