Read Wasik, Bill. “#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You” for class
Read Tufekci, Zeynep. “Twitter, Tear Gas, Revolution. How Protest Powered by Digital Tools Is Changing the World” for class

What do you think about Wasik’s view on changing policing in the wake of changing social gatherings via social media? Wasik also discusses the way governments and surveillance come into play with the new social media age. What does Zeynep discuss in terms of control of the public sphere of social media? How would this affect our use of the web? Design? And choosing what we say and write online?