The Sweet Candy Claw Machine

Revolution, Internet, and Common Knowledge and Organization Performance

The press sometimes called a "fever" of increasing protests in the countries of North Africa. In fact, one might rather call it a consciousness - in which Internet could play a crucial role, that of "revealing common knowledge". The

common knowledge translates the passage of the state in which we know something (there was an event in my country) to the state in which everybody knows everybody knows everybody knows that everyone knows that everyone knows, etc..

The role of the Internet is absolutely crucial: once we knew that things were happening, but
did not know that everybody knew, and so that joint action was possible. With any internet world knows that everybody knows. In other words, when "the king is naked", everyone sees it, knows that everyone sees and efforts are in vain to hide ...