Social Media & Egypt: One Year After the Arib Spring

This article is about how Tarek  Nasr used social media during the Arib Spring. People used Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks to spread the news, give people courage, and inform when demonstrations where taking place. Tarek now runs a digital advertising agency focused on social media. There is a video on this page which is an interview with him courtesy of another form of social media, Skype.




Social Media & Egypt: One Year After the Arib Spring

Has the "peace movement" started in the social media world been hijacked

http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=20505145&topic_id=24584158&tcid=vpp_copy_20505145&v=3

This video from Glenn Beck takes a critical look at the developments in Egypt and argues against the claims made by Bill Kristol and others that the revolution would lead to major change toward democracy.  The present administration has been supporting the idea that democracy would move in and the Muslim Brotherhood wouldn't move the country closer to Islamic Fundamentalism, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  This movement was supposed to be one started by the youth and spring-boarded by social media outlets. 

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Social Media Replaces Radical Media in the Arab World

    This interview video is from Richard Hering a British journalist talking with Lebanese journalist and academic Zahera Harb. The video shows the two speaking about the radical media being replaced by the social media in the Arab revolution in 2011. Harb speaks about the how the Arab world does not want the media to exist like how it exists in the western countries. However, Harb is a strong believer that the social media inspires many educators and scholars, such as herself, to turn radical media into social media, such as facebook, twitter and blogging. The social media gave space to Arab people to express themselves, and to be able to communicate with others about the pressure they are living under, mainly in the Egypt and Tunisia. The Egyptian Revolution is talked about from Harb, as an example of the youth educators coming together with the workers union and helping each other gather groups in society through social networking. Voices from the union workers were heard through the educated class who projected through the social media.


Social Media and the Arab Spring - You Tube

The Arab Spring, chronicled Tweet by Tweet

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/11/2011113123416203161.html

The Arab Spring, chronicled Tweet by Tweet
by: D. Parvaz
11/6/2011


This particular article discusses how tweeting what happened during the Arab Spring will effect how the event is remembered in history. During the Arab Spring hundreds of thousands of people were keeping recollections of what was actually happening. They called for "Tweeting of the Revolution," describing in detail threw social media about their personal events. It is said that the Arab Spring might be the first event that actually documented itself without being official documents. Of course each person takes their accounts differently, each thing someone might say could be taken completely different by another person.

The main question of the article  is, will the social media postings be kept and counted towards official history, Or will only certain versions of the truth be used to tell the story? " Regardless of what history books or public records will look like in decades to come, one thing is already clear: The future of activism in the Middle East is unlikely to resemble its past." -D. Parvaz

None is sure if the tweets will someday curve how the Arab Spring will be looked at. But, they do know that it had an impact of the citizens of this country. The tweeting revolution showed the strength behind the citizens. But, it also showed their weakness in certain skills. The article states that the people of the Arab Spring still need to be educated in order to truly become activists and fight for what's right.

ME Online - Social networks; catalyzers of Arab Spring

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=50404

This article is about Arab activists having the support of social network sites to "oust" dictators.  It talks about how they have played a key role in these situations but at the same time was not the sole reason.  Near the end of the article is says that internet was blocked in Egypt, Libya and Syria.  Then it goes on to make a good point that these revolts happened although internet was blocked during the heavy volume of the organizing.  For a group of people like the Arabs who have had to fight and defend their own people and land for many years, social networking is a great source of support and ideas.  I believe that without social networking, the Arab people would not have been able to pull off as many riots and taking down of rulers.  They have been, for to long, the underdogs and have not had the opportunity  to be powerful enough to make these things happen until recently.

Refugees becoming products of Arab Spring

This article does a great job in highlighting the statistics revealing the large increase in people seeking asylum from the region.  Record numbers of refugees have been recording fleeing Syria and Libya in the last year; However these two specific countries experience tremendous turmoil and a vast amount of these people were most likely attempting to reach safety.  I am surprised that with signs of hope sprouting throughout the Middle East from the Arab Spring movement, that this many people are still packing up and heading to the western world.  I would have thought that more people would be willing to unite behind the movement instead of continue the old ways of trying to leave the countries that have struggled to live in for so many years.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42437102#.T4SIaNlnBDw