Twitter, Facebook and YouTube’s role in Arab Spring (Middle East uprisings)

 By Social capital

January 26, 2011 

Abstract: The article deals about the role of social media and Internet in the Arab uprisings.


Quotation:" Everyone agrees that social media add new arrows to the quivers of social activists.  These social media can be helpful in: a) mobilizing protesters rapidly; b) undermining a regime’s legitimacy; or c) increasing national and international exposure to a regime’s atrocities.   Any use of these social media is likely to be more successful in a country that has some form of democracy; so far, the exit of Tunisia’s Ben Ali is the only example we have of social media non-violently ousting an autocrat."


Index terms: Social media, arabic revolution, Internet , power 


Found with: Google 


URL : http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/twitter-facebook-and-youtubes-role-in-tunisia-uprising/


By:  AO