The government believed that once it had placed restrictions on technology that the uprising would slow or halt effectively allowing them to gain control of the situation, however, the protesters rallied together and gained even more support despite the greatest efforts of the Mubarak government
They used social media as alternative press: reporting on events on the ground, uploading text and video directly to the internet or feeding the information and videos to media outlets.
Social media networks were the main source of on the ground information during the uprising. Journalists identified key bloggers from before the protests broke out and used them as a way to verify the information the were gathering from other sources.
MOOCs stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In essence, they’re simply another form of online education, but what makes them special is their sheer size: some MOOCs courses can have as many as a hundred thousand students actively involved at any one time.
Authentication elements: identification number, IP address, email address, user name, password, last name, first name, alias, etc.
Data: personal, administrative, banking, occupational, social data, etc.
Identifiers: photograph, avatar, logo, image, etc.
Digital traces: contributions to blogs and other content management systems, links, etc.
Digital identity is made up of elements that fall into four categories (