The Quiet Before, page 41
community built by, 247
content type needed by, 4, 5, 169, 176, 177, 181, 185, 242–243, 245, 249
COVID and, 215, 217, 223–227, 233
dominance of, 9
gaming, 246–247, 261
governance and affordances, 176, 177, 182–183, 262–263
impossible made seemingly possible on, 201–202
incubation time for change and, 6, 7, 9, 173, 174–176, 177–178, 179
intimacy and, 261
medium as molding message, 8–9
neighborhood platforms, 262–263
network effect, 183
nondemocratic nature of, 245, 246
rejectionism of, 179
restructured for democratic debates, 264–267
revolutions and, 175–176
“social” as misnomer, 260–261
as soft power with absence of leadership, 248, 249
television interviews with doctors and, 220–221
Trump election and, 6
Twitter DM groups, 222–223
Soffici, Ardengo, 56
“Songs to Joannes” (Loy), 68
Sontag, Susan, 164
Sorel, Georges, 60
Soviet Union, 7–8, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 112–113. See also samizdat
Spencer, Craig, 220, 221
Spencer, Richard, 186, 187, 189, 199, 207
Spice Girls, 148
Spin, 143
St. Augustine, 24
Star Tribune (Minneapolis), 256–257
Stieglitz, Alfred, 64
suffrage, 34–35, 36–37, 39, 43, 54, 270–271
Sunshine Governor, 95
Syntax, 105
T
Taiwan, 264–265
Taylor, Breonna, 238
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 249
theater of contempt, 55, 56–57, 62, 70
Thomas, Sir Shenton, 81
Thompson, Dorothy, 52
The Times of West Africa, 80, 81–82, 91
Tometi, Opal, 241
The Trend, 73
Trump, Donald
CDC and, 216, 231–232
COVID-19 misinformation, 215, 217, 223, 226–227, 233
election of, 6
racists and nativists and, 187, 209–210
Tufekci, Zeynep, 5
Turner, Fred, 151
Twitter, 223–226, 241, 245, 246, 247, 263
Twitter and Tear Gas (Tufekci), 5
U
Unicorn Riot, 190
USA Today, 142
V
Vaidhyanathan, Siva, 176
Vail, Tobi, 125–126, 130, 144
Vendôme, Agathange de, 14
violence
Chartism and, 44, 45–47
death of Said, 163
in feminism, 76
Futurists and, 55, 56, 60–61, 69, 70, 73
punk and, 126
virtual community
attention getting versus content, 160
detachment from social norms, 159
Echo (East Coast Hang Out), 159
purity built through talking belief, 160–161
responsibility on, 161
as safe space, 161
“us” and “them,” 165
WELL as, 155–156, 159–160
voting rights, 34–35, 36–37, 39, 43, 54, 270–271
W
Walker, Rebecca, 147
Wallace-Johnson, Isaac Theophilus Akunna, 96–97, 98
“We Are All Khaled Said”
as community, 170
followers, 165–166, 169
maintaining momentum on, 168
page established, 164
“Silent Stand” and, 168–169
Tahrir Square and, 171, 172, 173–174
WeChat, 267–268
Weibo, 268
WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link)
accountability and responsibility on, 154–155
as business, 161
civility on, 156–158
founding of, 150–152
growth of, 162
in-person meetings of participants, 158
intimacy versus scale, 162
as virtual community, 155–156, 159–160
women and, 158–159
White, Emily, 139
Williams, Zephaniah, 48–49, 50–51
Wolfe, Allison, 127, 128–129, 131–132, 133, 136, 145, 146
women. See also feminism
alt-right and, 192–193, 194, 202–204
Chartism and, 42–43
Punk and, 126
WELL and, 158–159
The World (Descartes), 24
World Health Organization (WHO), 218
World War I, 69–73, 77–78
Wright, Richard, 86–87
X
Xiao Mina, 268
Y
Yakhimovich, Ivan, 117
Z
Zang Tumb Tuuum (Marinetti), 71
Zik. See Azikiwe, Nnamdi
Zik’s Press, 102
zines, 126–127, 134, 135. See also girl zines
Zuckerberg, Mark, 260–261, 266
Zuckerman, Ethan, 261–264, 266
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
By Gal Beckerman
When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone
The Quiet Before
About the Author
Gal Beckerman is a writer and editor at The New York Times Book Review and the author of the widely acclaimed When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post. He has a PhD in media studies from Columbia University and writes for many publications, including The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
galbeckerman.com
Twitter: @galbeckerman
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