This book brings together a selection of key tweets in a compelling, fast-paced narrative, allowing the story of the uprising to be told directly by the people in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
The prosumer is one who produces what they consume and visa versa. Tweets from Tahrir places traditional consumers of content, the many faces in the crowd, as also content producers. What utility does having these tweets in book form have?
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replqwtil — March 26, 2011
The classic practice of history... to try and create a static statement of a dynamic event. Making sense so as to fit something ambiguous into a narrative. Also serves to further reinforce the importance of twitter, not only to organize, but also to fundamentally structure the action itself. A sort of communal manifesto?
Lori — March 27, 2011
I'm wondering why they wouldn't want to publish this sort of book in a more dynamic form that would better reflect and do justice to the events and authors. For example, creating an interactive book with Blio which would pair on-the-scene videos or soundclips with the tweets (since everything's timestamped you could easily sync up days and possibly even exact times within those days).