I actually can remember clearly watching the broadcasts of the revolution in 2011. I was sitting in a portable outside of my high school, during AP Government and Politics. Our teacher sat us down and decided this was a major even in history and we had to witness it. It was quite the spectacle. However, just like Castells says, while America kept up with the revolution, once Mubarak was removed from his position, we felt the revolution was over with. So eventually the media stopped reporting on it. It's more complicated than that, however. A revolution does not just end with the overthrowing of politics, the after effects of the event will change how the country functions. If I remember correctly, some reporters revisited Egypt some years later, and the situation had not gotten any better. Not to say that it has become worse, just that they reached a stalemate.
Technology played a major role in these revolutions. I believe it always had. Before the internet, the civil rights movement in the 60's had been shown nationwide. With TV and the radio, the movement reached far into nation, encouraging people of different creeds to walk with them and fight for equal rights. As said in Castells' article, the encouragement of Asmaa Mafhouz's vlog on her Facebook, she sparked the revolution, and it attracted many people of different backgrounds.
However, there is the notion of women in these movements. Castell looks into the issue of the treatment of women during these revolution. It ranged from physical assaults to sexual assaults. As the case with the "blue bra girl", a tragic assault that resulted in the anger of women. Even when they managed to get men to protest with them, the men were said to be uncomfortable with the women and sometimes looked the other way while they were being mistreated. Long in history women had been a large part of protests and revolution. But it is easy too erase them from the books, as they are very whitewashed versions of history. Is it because women are expected to be docile in a primarily patriarch society? Perhaps it is threatening to men to see women as anything but gentle and motherly humans.
Censorship was also touched on in Castell's article. It goes to show how important technology has become in our society. As mentioned, even with the revolution going on, the government had decided to lift the censorship and restore it to its original form. This being done out of pressure from the United States, economic failures, and the uselessness of stopping a movement that is already far from censorship.