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CHILDREN OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION:
CONCEPTUALISING PROTEST IDENTITIES THROUGH THE ARAB
AWAKENING
DR K BARKER
@BABYLEGALEAGLE
C Baghdady
‘COMMUNITY’
• PLACE OR LOCALITY
• DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO EACH COMMUNITY
• COMMUNITIES EXIST BECAUSE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THEM
• ‘A SHARED UNDERSTANDING’ (ATKINSON, 2014)
• IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTICS RATHER THAN COMMUNITIES?
‘GETTING SOCIAL’
• ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS DESIGNED TO CREATE NETWORKS
• ONLINE PERSONNAE ENCOURAGE THE CREATION OF DIFFERENT IDENTITIES – FORMATION OF PROTEST COMMUNITIES E.G. #EGYPT
• SHARED INTERESTS, SHARED IDENTITY – REMOVAL OF ‘BARRIERS’
ONLINE IDENTITIES & PROTEST
• DISTINCTION BETWEEN ONLINE & OFFLINE IDENTITY?
• USERS ARE NOT CREATING ANONYMITY IN CYBERSPACE – THEY ARE CREATING IDENTITIES THAT CAN BE USED THERE
• TRADITIONAL EMPHASIS ON POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND RELATIONAL BOUNDARIES IS REMOVED
• GENERATIONAL SHIFT IN ‘IDENTITY’ AND ‘COMMUNITY’
THE ARAB AWAKENING
CHILDREN OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION?
• CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ‘SELVES’
• ONLINE V OFFLINE?
• ONLINE AND OFFLINE? • TECHNOLOGY IS A MEANS OF IDENTITY CREATION
• TECHNOLOGY IS A MEANS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
• TECHNOLOGY IS A MEANS OF RECONSTRUCTION
Citizenship Community Identity Characteristics
of self