Jillian C. York - Tools of Change: How Social Media Helped Spark the Arab Spring

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    Tools of Change:How Social Media Helped Spark

    theArab Spring

    Jillian C. York

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    anti-corruption

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    anti-censorship

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    #sidibouzid

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    The Domino Effect

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    Suppression

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    Mahalla

    Photo by Nasser Nouri

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    Anti-torture

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    We Are All Khaled Said

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    Egypt: A FacebookRevolution?

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    Can Social MediaFacilitate Revolution?

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    No.

    But...

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    Silencing Speech

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    The Al Jazeera Effect

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    Internet v. Mobile

    Internet penetration Mobile penetration

    0

    20

    40

    60

    80

    100

    120

    140

    160

    Egypt

    Tunisia

    Libya

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    Clicktivism vs. Activism?

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    The media blackout,

    disinformation and censorshipcontinue to show theirlimitations. We have never been

    so well informed about what ishappening...The border betweenthe real and virtual worlds hasnever been so tight.

    -Selim, 2011(@Selim_)

    The Distributed Truth

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    The Distributed TruthEngine

    http://bit.ly/fnqE

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    social media has created asort of alternate space forreviving a dormant publicconsciousness into asentient, dynamic socialdiscourse

    -Hani Morsi,2011

    (@hanimorsi)

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    They thought that they mightprevent people fromcommunicating and arranging for

    further demonstrations. But thetruth is that such informationblackout made me...eager to

    participate in the "Friday ofAnger"

    -Tarek Amr, 2011

    (@gr33ndata)

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    Our strength will alwaysstem from the fact thatwell have one foot in thecyberspace, and, moreimportantly, the other footwill be on the ground.

    -Hossam El-Hamalawy,2008

    (@3arabawy)

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    Thank you!

    Jillian C. York

    [email protected]

    @jilliancyork

    http://jilliancyork.com

    mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]