http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/650/660
“Popular uprisings, indignant youth, toppled dictators, oligarchic
presidents dismissed, hopes dashed, liberties crushed in prisons, fixed trials,
and bloodbaths. How are we to read these images? Could revolt, or what is
called “riot” on the Web, be waking humanity from its dream of
hyperconnectedness? Or could it just be a trick played on us so that the
culture of spectacle can last longer? But what “revolt” are we talking about?
Is it even possible, in these times of widespread misery, endemic debt,
austerity and unemployment, when local wars can turn into global ones and
when the melting of the icecaps is ready to flood us?”