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Arab World: After Tunisia, Who's Next? · Global Voices - 0 views

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  • “More Tunisias, Please”
  • it is undeniable that the Tunisian uprising has sparked hope for tides of change across the Arab world.
  • stan mag on 16 Jan 11
     
    it is undeniable that the Tunisian uprising has sparked hope for tides of change across the Arab world.
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Tunisia, Twitter, Aristotle, Social Media and Final and Efficient Causes | technosociology - 0 views

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  • What Ethan is saying in his piece is that social media facilitated the events in ways that were crucial (material cause), but the revolution was made by the people of Tunisia at great human cost (the efficient cause) and it was aimed at overthrowing to corruption, unemployment and tyranny (the final cause).
  • I find it hard to believe that the ability to disseminate news, videos, tidbits, information, links, outside messages that easily, transparently and without censorship reached one in five persons (and thus their immediate social networks) within a country that otherwise suffered from heavy censorship was without a significant impact.
  • Social media helps strengthen communities as it is the antidote to isolating technologies (like suburbs and like televison)
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  • Social media seems to have been key allowing the expatriate and exiled community to mobilize and act as key links between rest of the Arab sphere
  • yes, the ability to disseminate information is not a sufficient cause for success, but it is surely a necessary one
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First thoughts on Tunisia and the role of the Internet | Net Effect - 0 views

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  • Finally, I think we shouldn't lose sight of the broader political and social impact of the Internet prior to mobilization (or, as some would put it, the "revolutionary situation"). Part of the argument that I'm making in The Net Delusion is that it's wrong to assess the political power of the Internet solely based on its contribution to social mobilization: We should also consider how it empowers the government via surveillance, how it disempowers citizens via entertainment, how it transforms the nature of dissent by shifting it into a more virtual realm, how it enables governments to produce better and more effective propaganda, and so forth
  • stan mag on 16 Jan 11
     
    "Now, let me ask something really wild: Would this revolution have happened if there were no Facebook and Twitter?"
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It's Not Twitter or Facebook, It's the Power of the Network: Tech News and An... - 0 views

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  • In the end, it’s not about Twitter or Facebook: it’s about the power of real-time networked communication.
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Who Organized Tunisia's Revolution? | techPresident - 0 views

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  • Communications tools don't organize social movements. Organizers and organizations do. Media helps, but that is all.
  • stan mag on 16 Jan 11
     
    Communications tools don't organize social movements. Organizers and organizations do. Media helps, but that is all.
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The First Twitter Revolution? - By Ethan Zuckerman | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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  • Tunisians took to the streets due to decades of frustration, not in reaction to a WikiLeaks cable, a denial-of-service attack, or a Facebook update.
  • it's likely to be a hot topic of conversation in Amman, Algiers, and Cairo, as other autocratic leaders wonder whether the bubbling cauldron of unemployment, street protests, and digital media could burn them next
  • stan mag on 16 Jan 11
     
    Tunisians took to the streets due to decades of frustration, not in reaction to a WikiLeaks cable, a denial-of-service attack, or a Facebook update.
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L'observatoire hebdomadaire du web politique #14 : Spécial Tunisie | Facebook - 0 views

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  • stan mag on 20 Jan 11
     
    "Les tenants de la Web révolution Nouvel Observateur, le Figaro, Le Monde : les plus ardents défenseurs d'un rôle décisif du web dans la révolution tunisienne sont, paradoxalement, les médias traditionnels. Le Web comme catalyseur de la « révolution » : le Nouvel Obs, par la voix de J-F Julliard, qualifie purement et simplement les événements actuels de « e-révolution », le mécontentement exprimé sur le Web ayant contribué à déloger le président tunisien. Le Monde, lui, publie une tribune d'un chercheur à l'IRIS, lequel affirme que le Web contribue à former des citoyens éclairés et politisés, donc rebelles. In fine, c'est donc bien le Web qui serait le catalyseur de la révolte. Enfin, certains médias algériens relaient par ailleurs la thèse selon laquelle Wikileaks et Facebook ont joué un rôle complémentaire dans le mécontentement : le premier en publiant certaines informations gênantes, l'autre en les popularisant. Le Web comme outil d'organisation : sur le Nouvel Obs, un article revient plus en détail sur l'organisation du mouvement via le Web, un Web devenu un « outil indispensable de l'opposant » en Tunisie. Numerama adopte le même ton : Internet aurait été en mesure de renverser le régime tunisien en raison de l'efficacité accrue de la mobilisation, une efficacité permise par le Web. Le Web comme transmetteur d'informations : par la voix de Pierre Haski (Rue89), l'AFP se range également dans le camp des tenants de la « Web révolution » : sans Internet, de telles émeutes ne seraient pas permises, notamment grâce la bonne circulation de l'information qui a rendu possible la diffusion de l'appel à la mobilisation. Les « pure players », incrédules À l'inverse, les sceptiques trouvent leur place au sein des pure-players et medias spécialisés. Les blogs comme Netpolitique, Meilcour ou Guy Birenbaum figurent parmi ces incrédules. Le Web ne fait que transmettre
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Sudanese president urges supporters to use Facebook to overcome opposition (via @marjor... - 0 views

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  • The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir has called on his supporters to use Facebook in order to overcome groups that are opposed to his rule. Bashir made the call during his visit to North Kordofan state on Tuesday where he inaugurated a power plant. Sudan official news agency (SUNA) cited Bashir as instructing authorities to pay more attention towards extending electricity to the countryside so that the younger citizens can use computers and internet to combat opposition through social networking sites such as Facebook.
  • This is the first call of its kind by an Arab president since a wave of revolts spread across the Middle East leading to the downfall of the 23-years old regime in Tunisia and forced the Egyptian government to loosen its grip on the power and make unprecedented concessions.
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The First Twitter Revolution? - By Ethan Zuckerman | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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  • Tunisians got an alternative picture from Facebook, which remained uncensored through the protests, and they communicated events to the rest of the world by posting videos to YouTube and Dailymotion.
  • Not content just to filter content, last summer Tunisian authorities began "phishing" attacks on activists' Gmail and Facebook accounts
  • Tunisia has aggressively censored the Internet since 2005, blocking not just explicitly political sites, but social media sites like video-sharing service Dailymotion
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  • When the riots intensified last week, the government began arresting prominent Internet activists, including my Global Voices colleague Slim Amamou, who had broken the story of the government's password phishing.
  • But any attempt to credit a massive political shift to a single factor -- technological, economic, or otherwise -- is simply untrue. Tunisians took to the streets due to decades of frustration, not in reaction to a WikiLeaks cable, a denial-of-service attack, or a Facebook update.
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