Pamphlets and books informing and galvanizing people played an important role during the Glorious Revolutions in England the French Revolutions and the march toward democracy in nineteenth-century Britain. Similarly, media, particularly new forms based on advances in information and communication technology, such as Web blogs, anonymous chats, Facebook, and Twitter, played a central role in Iranian oppositions against Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent elections in 2009 and subsequent repression, and they seem to be playing a similarly central role in the Arab Spring protests that are ongoing as this manuscript is being completed.