Social media, protests and lessons from the Arab Spring

How does social media help anti-government protesters? How does it help the governments resisting them? I was part of a discussion on this topic on the BBC’s Daily Politics earlier this week:

For more on this question, see my magazine article from last year The Arab Spring, social media and lessons for future revolutionaries:

“The longer you can look back, the further you can look forward”. So said Winston Churchill, explaining the practical application of history to forecasting. That is why those seeking to understand the causes as well as possible implications of the Arab Spring and Egyptian revolution of 2011 can learn much from the previous Egyptian revolution – that of 1919.

Read on here.