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Introduction 1 NOTES Introduction 1. Rasha Abdullah, Egypt’s Media in the Midst of the Revolution (Washington, D.C.: Car ne gie Endowment for International Peace, 2014). 2. An Xiao Mina, “Hashtag Memes: Breaking the Single Story through Humour,” Al Jazeera, March 2013, http:// www . aljazeera . com / indepth / opinion / 2013 / 03 / 2013326132026281740 . html. 3. Ian Hutchby, “Technologies, Texts and Affordances,” Sociology 35, no. 2 (2001): 441–56; and Sandra K. Evans, Katy E. Pearce, Jessica Vitak, and Jeffrey W. Treem, “Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research,” Journal of Computer- Mediated Com- munication, December 2016. 4. Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Mar- kets and Freedom (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006). 5. 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