Can Revolutionary Media Be Made Online?

This chapter presents Mosireen, a non-profit media collective and an alternative media outlet foundedby a group of activists, writers, journalists, and filmmakers in the midst of a political change in Egypt.This group developed a special interpretation of the concept of “revolutionary media,” and for morethan two years have been executing their ideas on the ground. Thus, Mosireen is a case to study theinstrumentalization of the Internet in political activism, and the revolutionalization of the use of digitaland social media at the time of struggle against the regime.