The social intifada: How Palestinian youth use social media to forge instant forms of activism

Compared to the first and second Intifada, where the use of media has been limited to TV and newspapers, today the large fruition of the social by the youth has made traditional media useless and the flow of information much harder to control – perhaps even impossible at times. Something that has never happened before and that makes it easy for certain groups to gain popularity and influence in such a short time.

(Di Nino Orto)

The social intifada: How Palestinian youth use social media to forge instant forms of activism