The story was just a little item in the Washington Post. The all-male Kuwaiti Legislature had voted unanimously to allow women to vote and run for office. What a strange thing for them to do, I thought. It turned out that thousands of women were using Blackberries beneath their burkas, emailing the legislators to support the new law. This story spurred me to write my first book about the ways that social media were shifting power from institutions to individuals.
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