Digital Literacy at Full Sail University

They used social networks as organization tools. They were quick, easy and accurate.

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. 

But even though social media and the Internet did not cause the Arab Spring and the  fall of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, they clearly defined how and when these  protests took place, and are thus of direct interest to this article. CMC creates a space  between the public and private spheres that was clearly little understood by the  authorities in these case studies. Technology allowed people to share not simply  information about how and when to protest, but more importantly, to share images  and videos that contributed to a different interpretation of events than that which the  authorities themselves wished.

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