Therefore, Williams’s critique of media determinism helps us to challenge the simplistic proposition that “the Internet has changed our world” (Freedman, 2010). Similarly, in the last decade, the role...

Therefore, Williams’s critique of media determinism helps us to challenge the simplistic proposition that “the Internet has changed our world” (Freedman, 2010). Similarly, in the last decade, the role of social media, including facebook and Twitter, in the public uprisings, demonstrations, and protests in the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring, has been exaggerated from a perspective of media determinism.