Social Media Revolutions Myths & Reality

Royal Higher Institute for DefenceOctober 21 - 2014

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The graph represents Twitter accounts responding to an incident at the UNWRA school in Beit Hanoun between July 25 and 30. Nodes are Twitter handles, and their connections represents who follow relationships. The larger a node, the higher its

centrality, the more followed that account is within this group. The closer together two nodes, the more connections they share.

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Simple Immediate

Pervasive Always On

No Hierarchy

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Rand Research: Radicalisation in the Digital Era

[T]here is an assumption that the internet plays a part in some individuals’ radicalisation... but [there are] no large-scale studies showing this to actually be the case or measuring the

extent of the internet’s role in such processes. (Conway and McInerney, 2008, p.13)

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Interactive Timeline - Arab Revolutions

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Help people to express their discontent, grievances and wishes; Convey the vision and objectives of the movement;

Provide information and facts that the opponent is hiding or does not want the people to know; Convey messages to various groups within a society or to the population as a whole;

Influence public debate and perceptions; Influence the opponent’s pillars of support;

Convey information and messages to the media and international community.

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We use Facebook to schedule the protests,Twitter to coordinate & YouTube to tell the world...

Cairo Activist

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“Les blogueurs ne remplaceront pas les journalistes. Ils restent des personnes avançant des opinions. Mais il faut comprendre qu’une partie de ce qu’il se passe sur Internet

devrait simplement exister dans les médias. C’est aussi parce que ces derniers offrent des contenus restreints

qu’Internet est devenu une alternative si forte au Maroc”.Hisham Almiraat - Global Voices Advocacy Director & Blogger

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Social media were a powerful tool during

the Euromaidan movement both for organising protests

and exchanging information. Up to that point, there had been a lack of information for most Ukrainian

people. The authorities controlled

most major radio, television and print

news sources.

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"Outsiders are utterly incapable of advising individuals in a country who want to engage in civil

resistance about how to do so," DuVall says.

"The conceptual and generic nature of this form of struggle can be taught; but then it's up to people on the ground to do that on their own. They're the ones

taking the risks."

Jack DuVall, president of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

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Thanks to the messaging app FireChat, Hong Kong protesters are able to connect off the grid, making it much more difficult—if not impossible—for the authorities to shut them down by

blocking Internet access.

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"It's really just a very integrated movement, even though the uprisings are very national and very

organic," Tufekci says.

"They're not just inspired by outside; they're inspired by their own grievances, but the technical

considerations are inspired by what's going on elsewhere."

Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland

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The Internet in Brazil has grown at a furious pace in the last few years, and many protesters and bystanders had Internet-enabled cell phones. The images and footage

they captured, of brutality by the police alongside the non-violent discipline of the protesters, caught the corporate media in their own lies, forcing them to alter their

reporting and shifting the overall narrative. (Brazil Free Fare Movement - 2013)

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Revolutions don’t “just happen” - they are organised, prepared and planned.

Social Media do not start revolutions - they support, enhance, organise and document them.

You need a spark to start a fire...

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Rdja Popovic started out as a pro-democracy activist in his native Serbia by founding the group "Otpor" (Resistance),

which led the protests that drove authoritarian President Slobodan Milosevic

from power.

Popovic then exported his nonviolent methods, helping train the activists who

spearheaded Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003 and Ukraine's Orange Revolution in

2004.

Canvas was founded in 2003 and has trained dissidents in 37 countries, including Zimbabwe, North Korea,

Belarus, and Iran.

In the late summer of 2009 the group collaborated with other NGOs to bring approximately 20 Egyptian activists --

including some of those who later founded the April 6 movement.

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Andrew BoydCo-editor & Wrangler-in-Chief

Andrew Boyd is an author, humorist and veteran of creative campaigns for social

change.

He led the decade-long satirical media campaign “Billionaires for Bush.”

He co-founded Agit-Pop Communications, an award-winning “subvertising” agency, as well as the netroots social justice movement The

Other 98%.

He's the author of three books: Daily Afflictions, Life’s Little Deconstruction

Book and the creative action manual The Activist Cookbook.

He is currently Editor and Wrangler-in-Chief of the Beautiful Trouble project.

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Thank you. Philippe Borremanswww.conversationbog.com

The most

powerful

weapon

on earth

is the

human

soul on

fire...

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