Friday, 13 December 2013

notes on the effects of new digital media on the Arab Spring

. December 2010 - uprising first occured in Tunisia
. Arab Spring and the revolution
. Impact on new and digital media.
. Wern't guns and bombs but internet which was exposing brutality
. media activist
. South- poor - sidi bouzid
. december 2010 26 year old committed suicide
. mobile phones showed people what happened
. captured evidence
. filming from front line
. press censorship
. slim and Aziz - university educated - showed hatred of the president
. people argued that the tunisian citizens did not have a personality or view point because of Ben Ali
. tunisian bloggers had access to internet
. 'beauty of internt' there are pathways to communicate'
. posted videos on facebook to show the audience what was happening
. broadcasted on social networking sites- Al jazeera
. copy cat demonstration occured
. ' Tunis must be mobilised '
. hacked into main untion website - centre of Tunis - mohammed ali square to protest
. leading people into what street to go because there was police everywhere
. took photographs and published it
. installed software- live streaming uploaded
. took 28 days to take him down
. 90% had phones, 20 % had broadband
. 2 million facebook users
. traditionl media - failed PR campaign ( public relations )
. Internet decentralised
. protest videos went vira

Paragraph on would revolution in Tunisia happen without facebook ?

I think that the revolution in Tunisia would not occur without the help of social media especially Facebook because people published videos and information of Facebook which informed people about the corruption which was taking place in Tunisia, this helped set a revolution as people became aware of what was happening and wanted a change.

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