Response to Philip N. Howard's review of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

By Evgeny V. Morozov. Perspectives on Politics, 2011

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Social Media and Corruption (2018, background): “Others reasons why online social media may not have any impact is that online activity may crowd out offline actions (Larson, 2014) or that social media may be strategically manipulated (Esfandiari 2010, Morozov,2011, Edmond 2013).”
The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions (2011, background): “By looking at these flows, we can identify key characteristics: who starts an information flow, what types of actors are 3 For different popular perspectives on the role of social media in these contexts, compare the utopian views of Shirky (2009), the more critical views of Gladwell (2010) and Moro”
Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square (2012, background): “Perspectives range across the full spectrum from those who view the Internet as potentially disruptive (Aday et al., 2010; Howard, 2010) to those who argue that it may even support authoritarian regimes (Morozov, 2011).”