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  • Social Media and the Arab Spring

    Author(s):
    M. RABINDRANATH SUJAY KAPIL
    Editor(s):
    Jyotirmaya Patnaik (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanists, Electronic Literature, Feminist Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Social media, Middle East, Arab countries, Digital media, Communication, Journalism, Egypt
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Arab Spring, convergence, blogosphere, Internet activism, Arab Middle East
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/b6pc-1562
    Abstract:
    This paper discusses the effect of social media on the occurrence of ‘Arab Spring’. In the Arab world no country could claim to be truly democratic and most were autocratic coupled with desertification (68.4 per cent of the total land area), phenomenal rise in population and scarcity of water. Moreover, about 60 per cent of the population is under 25 years and this group belonging to lower- middle class with high education, self- constructed status, wider world views and global dreams forced them to raise their voice and change the autocratic set up. But, in the absence of effective social media since the year 2000 made it possible to raise their voice unitedly through facebook, twitter and blogs culminating to the ouster of Hosne Mubarak in Egypt. The ‘top to down’ approach adopted by the Western social scientists, thus proved wrong and ‘bottom to top’ approach through social media brought the dramatic changes in Arab nations.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.15655/mw/2015/v6i1/55438
    Publisher:
    Media Watch
    Pub. Date:
    2014-12-10
    Journal:
    Media Watch
    Volume:
    6
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    124 - 132
    ISSN:
    2249-8818,0976-0911
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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