This revolution may be postmodernized

Yesterday I went to an Amnesty International meeting in which one of the workshops I attended was "Middle East and North Africa Uprising: Conversation with AIUSA Experts". Many times they mentioned that technology such as Twitter and Facebook was to Mubarak as poison may have been to Nasser, but that the revolution did not start with technology; it started with hope. Hope, and an idea, and that youth were tired of waiting and didn't yet know how to be afraid. So where did this idea come from?

The experts also mentioned that this revolution was not like other ones before - there was no Mandela, no Ghandi, no one leader, because "they were all leaders". How did this happen?
A hypothesis started forming in my mind, that even though Adbusters published a few issues back that postmodernism's time has passed, this revolution is very much postmodern.

Postmodernism started, in the West anyway, with Nietzsche's declaration that God is dead, that there is no longer only one religious truth. Then there's Barthes' Death of the Author, another postmodern proclamation in which he pronounces that there is no one driving force behind any text. Similarly, the revolutions in North Africa can be interpreted in this light: death of the leader. There leader has not disappeared; rather, the leader has pluralized into multitudes.