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Two years after the Arab Spring, questions still remain as to how much social media actually helped fuel and drive the uprisings that arose in Tunisia and swept across the region.
What Happens to Social Media After a Twitter Revolution?
Introduction This article focuses on grassroots digital activism in the Arab world and the risks of what seems to be an inevitable collusion with U.S foreign policy and interests.
The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital activism
Two years on from the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the new Egyptian president is from the Muslim Brotherhood ; on the streets of Cairo, the same kind of people who died in droves in 2011 are still getting killed. On the streets of Athens, the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn is staging anti-migrant pogroms . In Russia, Pussy Riot are in jail and the leaders of the democracy movement facing criminal indictments.
From Arab Spring to global revolution | Paul Mason | World news
What role has so-called social networking media played in the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and in new social movements in the West such as Occupy? Are there things that would not have been possible without Twitter and Facebook?
Magazine 52-53 : A Twitter revolution?
The new politics of the internet: Everything is connected
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The Dynamics of Protest Recruitment through an Online Network : Scientific Reports
The role that SNSs play in helping protests grow is uncontested by most media reports of recent events. However, there is not much evidence of how exactly these online platforms can help disseminate calls for action and organize a collective movement. Our findings suggest that there are two parallel processes taking place: the dynamics of recruitment, and the dynamics of information diffusion.
Visualizing Data at the Oxford Internet Institute - The Waves and Tides of Online Protests
DescriptionFor all the debate around the impact of social media on the Arab Spring – and Patrick McCurdy is compiling an excellent reading list on that topic – when a revolutionary movement is taking off in a non-democratic country, the social media information flow from within the country can slow dramatically. Protesters’ concern for their security increases, while governments may seek to reduce the speed of access to social networks or block them altogether.
The revolution will be spoken – why voice matters for the next Spring « RODRIGO DAVIES
Yousri Marzouki: Revolutionizing Revolutions: Virtual Collective Consciousness and the Arab Spring
Discussions about the influence of social media often remind those on the impact of TV in the 1980s: Everyone has an opinion, some have statistics, and a few others are trying to understand the psychological and sociological mechanisms that lie beneath.
Social media has been often touted for the role it played in the popular uprisings that have spread across the Arab world since December 2010.
How the Arab World Uses Facebook and Twitter [INFOGRAPHICS]
The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation
Moving beyond the conceptual polarisation of tight-knit vanguardist parties and loose-tie virtual networks, Rodrigo Nunes sifts the residue of last year’s wave of revolts to produce a more nuanced picture of organisational dynamics in the age of Web 2.0This post is part of our special coverage Europe in Crisis . The date for the first citizen protest in Barcelona to celebrate the first anniversary of 15M (May 15th) was on Saturday 12M (May 12th) at 6pm in Catalunya Plaza.
Spain: The “Indignados” of the 15M
A group of Iran's green movement activists had a grand and detailed vision for what was supposed to happen on Feb. 11. They called it a "Trojan Horse" strategy: Backers of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, camouflaged in unassuming attire, would attend the official regime-backed rally commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Then, at a pre-arranged time, they would assemble in front of the cameras of the foreign news media, reveal themselves as enthusiasts of the green movement, and denounce the brutality of the government for all the world to see.