How Was The Protestant Reformation Like The Arab Spring? Social Networks

Wasn’t the printing press was the crucial factor in the rapid spread of Martin Luther’s ideas through Europe? Not exactly, and certainly not by itself.: the real key was the social networks that passed around “the new media of their day – pamphlets, ballads and woodcuts … Luther, like the Arab revolutionaries, grasped the dynamics of this new media environment very quickly, and saw how it could spread his message.”