Social media tools have continued to grow inpopularity throughout the first quarter of 2011. Combining the approaches of geospatial analysis and nlp allows us to examine in a broader sense different aspects of crowd behaviorarab spring, for example the role of social media in the arab. Social media, arab spring and its implications for pakistan 401 there is an important distinction betw een pakistan and the countries in the middle east and north africa that have expe rienced. Pdf social media, arab spring and its implications for. The arab spring began in late 2010 in response to oppressive regimes and a low standard of living, beginning with protests in tunisia noueihed, 2011. Study confirms social medias revolutionary role in arab. The event has triggered the solidarity of at least 8 countries in the. Social media and fundamental change chandos publishing social media. Apr 17, 2015 governments in tunisia and egypt soon fell, civil war broke out in libya, and protestors took to the streets in algeria, morocco, syria, yemen and elsewhere. The imp act of new media on contemporary social movements and challenges for social movement theory victoria carty chapman university abstract th events of arab spring were shocking for those who study soctal movements as longterm dictators were swiftly removed from office and a democratic wave hit the region. This is not to imply that there is a lack of information. Digital media didnt oust mubarak, but it did provide the medium by which soulful calls for freedom have cascaded across north africa and the middle east.
Research problem tunisia is a developing country, an uppermiddleincome economy, and not everybody has access to the internet. Social media and the arab spring rabindranath media watch. In the arab world no country could claim to be truly democratic and most were autocratic coupled with desertification 68. Howard, university of washington aiden duffy, university of washington deen freelon, american university muzammil hussain, university of washington will mari, university of washington marwa mazaid, university of washington working paper 2011. New media must be understood as part of a wider information arena in which new and old media form complex interrelationships. Of the four major arab spring protests analyzedtunisia, egypt, libya, and bahrain. Facebook, twitter, youtube, and other forms of social media have played a major role in the planning, acceleration, and even the preparation of some of the uprisings and revolutions that too place in the middle east at this time. Applying the framework of digital reflexivity to analyze gender and online activism. Arab spring translated to arab revolutions in arabic, were series of protests and demonstrations against dictatorship, absolute monarchy, human rights violations, and government corruption source. Pdf the year 2010 has seen the rise of west asia with the arab spring phenomena. English and arabic twitter users and their networks axel bruns, tim highfield, and jean burgess arc centre of excellence for creative industries and innovation. This paper will discuss the causes of the arab spring and how social media played a role in the middle east before the start of the revolutions in 2011. Description in late of 2010 and during 2011, the arab countries saw a series of large scale political uprisings.
Nov 30, 2012 how social media affected the arab spring 1. The impact of social media on social unrest in the arab spring. They still speak of the jasmine revolution in tunisia, the the arab spring and the facebook revolution. The impact of social networks and mobile technologies on the. Social media and the arab spring al jazeera america. The arab spring and the social media centre for culture, media and governance, jamia millia islamia 1 social media, as of now, can be understood as the mix. This report investigates the impact of social media upon social unrest during the arab spring and is designed to test the common hypothesis that facebook, twitter and other social media outlets had a significant impact on the outbreak of protests in the mena region. His last wordshow do you expect me to make a living. I reflected back to the arab spring and the things that were accomplished because of the use of sites like facebook and twitter, this led me to my research question. The arab spring carried the promise that social media and the internet were going to unleash a new wave of positive social change. Social media has played a crucial role in the emergence, organization and dissemination of the. The arab spring of 2010 was a domino style revolution that spread throughout the middle east and north africa resulting in a complete upheaval of the autocratic status quo in the region. Pdf the role of social media in the arab uprisings past and. Uneven impact of social media on political processes.
The role of social media in political mobilisation. The arab spring, social media, and human rights by tina xu when mohammed bouazizi doused himself with gasoline and lit his fatal match, he ignited not only his flesh but the spirit of a revolution that would transform the face of north africa and the middle east. Social media indeed played a part in the arab uprisings. Taking power through technology in the arab spring iran. It helped people share videos of protest, police aggression, injured and murdered citizens.
Pdf social media in the arab world before the recent revolutions had been described as marginal, alternative and elitist, and their impact minimal. Governments in tunisia and egypt soon fell, civil war broke out in libya, and protestors took to the streets in algeria, morocco, syria, yemen and elsewhere. A study from the university of washington shows that social media, like twitter and facebook, did, indeed, play a major role in sparking the arab spring revolutions that engulfed the middle east. Social media and the youth revolutions perspectives of youth empowerment through the social networks proposal of contribution to the malta conference on youth empowerment 2224 march 2012 by farah i. Hassan a capstone submitted to the graduate school camden rutgers, the state university of new jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of masters of arts in liberal studies written under the direction of professor hamid abdeljaber. One of these sources was social media and its power to put a human face on political oppression. This article examines the role of the new media in the arab spring in the middle. But the past five years have shown that liberty isnt the only. Social media was effective in awakening the arab people and giving them the power to fight against repressive regimes in their drive for greater freedom and independence. The series of arab uprisings collectively known as the arab spring is a flashpoint in history perhaps the biggest we. In the sea of the arab spring, social media provided a.
In the news, social media have been heralded as the driving force behind the swift spread of revolution throughout. Implications of the arab spring the jefferson quran maher zain, technology, and southeast asias place in modern islam islam and science the new social media and the arab spring saudi arabia. Axel bruns, tim highfield, and jean burgess arc centre of excellence for creative industries and innovation, queensland university of technology. The role of information communication technologies in the. Facebook has over 677 million users as of aprilwith the middle east constituting one of theregions that contributed the largest amount of newusers its mobile users.
Social media, arab spring and its implications for pakistan 397 facebook, which has 6. As a result of their research many academics have come to the conclusion that social media played a critical role in mobilization, empowerment, shaping opinions, and influencing change during the arab spring. While the arab spring may point to a phenomenon of new mass forms of sociopolitical protest facilitated by social media networks, particularly in regard to their organizational and. This paper looks at the role of media of arab spring by presenting a. Oct 24, 2012 social media and revolution in the arab world duration. When broadbased protest movements erupted in north africa in the winter of 20102011, the media searched for some terms to describe these uprisings. Feb 16, 2011 digital media didnt oust mubarak, but it did provide the medium by which soulful calls for freedom have cascaded across north africa and the middle east. In light of the arab spring revolutions of early 2011, the internet and its tools of. Has malcolm gladwells opinion on social media and the arab spring changed. In the sea of the arab spring, social media provided a means for assorted civil groups to collaborate.
The first is that one cannot understand the role of social media in collective action. Opening closed regimes what was the role of social media during the arab spring. How social media affected the arab spring slideshare. The role of social media in the arab uprisings pew. The impact of these technologies was felt globally, affecting both developed and developing nations, if not in the same way. Social media and women of the arab spring effects of social media on egyptian womens participation in the revolution hanna lehtonen supervisors. Social media and politics and the arab spring moment iemed. Aboutthe arab spring is a revolution that began latedecember 2010 in tunisia when mohamedbouazizi, a 26yearold fruit and vegetable seller,set himself on fire after police confiscated his cartbecause he didn. Facebook and twitter, for example, have expandedtheir user base and platforms significantly. Apr 23, 2018 the united arab emirates, bahrain, qatar, lebanon, and kuwait had some of the highest levels of social media penetration, and yet experienced only small levels of unrest during the arab spring time period.
Well i think that what social media and these revolutions has really taught us. The influence of social media in egypt during the arab spring. The arab spring and the social media centre for culture, media and governance, jamia millia islamia 1 social media, as of now, can be understood as the mix between older cultural conventions for data representation, access, and manipulation and newer. A study conducted in 2011 quantified the effect which social media had on the arab spring. Social media and the arab spring sage publications. Social media is no longer the domain of the liberal youth, empowering different agendas across the political map. New media and conflict after the arab spring the web site cannot. Challenges for the 21st century sufism in the modern world. In addition, the tunisian regime was a dictatorship that controlled. Social media and revolution in the arab world duration. Social media and the arab spring rutgers university. American university analyze the role of social media in the. Pdf social media, arab spring and its implications for pakistan.
The role social of media and modern technology in arab spring. Critical thought and the future of islam the middle east and muslim southeast asia. Taking power through technology in the arab spring. This paper discusses the effect of social media on the occurrence of arab spring. Whilst the revolution may no longer be televised there is an extremely high chance that it will be tweeted. Social media made the arab spring, but couldnt save it. Social media in arab spring essay sample sample essays. The role of social media in the arab spring pangaea.
It is difficult to know when the arab spring will end, but we can already say something about the political casualties, longterm regional consequences and the modern recipe for. Study confirms social medias revolutionary role in arab spring. Facebook, twitter, youtube and other social media websites were the driving force in arab spring. The role of social media in the arab spring the role of social media in the arab spring the arab spring. The united arab emirates, bahrain, qatar, lebanon, and kuwait had some of the highest levels of social media penetration, and yet experienced only small levels of unrest during the arab spring time period. Dec 10, 20 how social media affected the arab spring a study conducted in 2011 quantified the effect which social media had on the arab spring. Due to the recent nature of these events, the scholarly and academic discourse is still developing, and there is fairly limited data and analysis of the role of social media in the arab spring. Since the first wave of arab spring revolution swept across parts of the middle east and northern africa more than a year ago, it has been increasingly debated whether or how much social media tools played an instrumental role in that. This essay analyzes the engagement of arab feminist activisms online, most notably. Civil society leaders in arab countries emphasized the role of the internet, mobile phones, and social media in the protests. Politics comes first gadi wolfsfeld 1, elad segev2, and tamir sheafer3 abstract the goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a more general theoretical structure, using the events of the arab spring as a case study. What was the influence of social media in egypt during the arab spring. Social media and fundamental change chandos publishing social media jamali, reza on. Networks formed online were crucial in organizing a core group of activists, specifically in egypt.
While popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the 2011 arab spring are likely to overstate the impact of facebook and twitter on these uprisings, it is nonetheless true that protests and unrest in countries from tunisia to syria generated a substantial amount of social media activity. English and arabic twitter users and their networks. For the case of tunisia, social media specially facebook was a main actor in the revolution. The new social media and the arab spring oxford centre for. Toward better analysis of new media and the arab spring. Social media and its influence on the arab spring december 17, 2015 according to online activist nasser weddady, social media in the arab uprising became the peoples news agency. English and arabic twitter users and their networks axel bruns, tim highfield, and jean burgess arc centre of excellence for creative industries and innovation queensland university of technology brisbane, australia. Abdel sater spokesperson of the arab youth parliament for water. Explaining the role and impact of social media in the arab spring.
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