Group B analyzed the role of social media in the Arab Spring uprisings that began in 2010 in Tunisia. They outlined how social media: 1) Put a human face on political oppression stories and inspired dissidents to organize protests through sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. 2) Played a central role in shaping political debates, with social media demographics showing high youth and women participation online. 3) Helped spread democratic ideas and news of events across international borders, accelerating protests and putting pressure on governments.

1. Group :B
kazi Manna Yeasmin Rishu
Imran Ahsan
Jhuyena Akter
Amir Hossain

2. Outline
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Term analysis
Opening speech
Background of Arab Spring
Political debates in social media during Arab Spring
Spread democratic ideas across international boarder
Power of social media
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
Young people’s role in Arab spring by social media
Women’s role
Tunisia
Statistics of blogs and tweets during revolution in Tunisia
Egypt

3. Term analysis
 The
Arab spring is a revolutionary wave of
demonstrations, protests, and wars occurring in the Arab
world that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia
 Social media refers to the means of interactions among
people in which they create, share, and exchange information
and ideas in virtual communities and networks.[1 Andreas K
aplin and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of
Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and
technological foundations of Web 2.o, and that allow the
creation and exchange of user-generated content.

4. 0pening speech
 The Arab Spring had many causes. One of these
sources was social media and its power to put a
human face on political oppression. Bouazizis self
immolation was one of several stories told and retold
on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in ways that
inspired dissidents to organize protests, criticize their
governments, and spread ideas about democracy. Until
now, most of what we have known about the role of
social media in the Arab Spring has been anecdotal.

5. Background
1. Acceleration
of protests
through social media
2. Thought of inventors about
their social media
3. Social media ,the platform
of sharing views

6. Social media played a
central role in shaping
political debates in The
Arab Spring
I.
II.
Social Media plays an
integral part in the
revolution
 Preceding mass protests
by blogs and tweets
 Resignation of Ben Ali
Demographic conversation in
political debate through social  Statistics of primary blogs
and rally………
media.
Social media & creating
pressure on governments.

7.  Young people take key
leadership
Spring
in
Arab
Women’ role in Arab
Spring
 Women’s participation
in
political conversations.
 66
percent of the
Internet
savvy  41 % of Tunisia’s Facebook
population
in population is female and 36
Tunisia, and 70 percent percent of Egypt’s Facebook
in Egypt, is under the age population is female.
of 34.
 Women made up 33 percent
of the people actively
Tweeting
inside Egypt
during the revolution.

8. Ratio of man and women’s
participation in revolution
Tunisia
women
41%
man
59%

9. Tunisia – From Oppression
to Resistance to Spark for
the Region
 In total, there where 13,262 tweets using the hastag
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

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associated with Tunisian political uprising
18% tweets came from inside Tunisia
32% tweets from outside the resign
The day Ben Ali reigned, 2,200 tweets from
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco,
and Yemen
concerned the uprising in Tunisia.
Gradually this online based revolution spread
throughout the Middle East and Arabian countries.

10. social media helped spread democratic
ideas across international borders.
 Democracy in Egypt and
Tunisia used social media
to connect with others
outside their countries.
 Western
about
ground.
 Spread
news
stories
events on the
news
about
ongoing events throughout
the region.
Example………….

11. Statistics of blogs and tweets
during revolution in Tunisia

12. Egypt – The Freedom Meme
Spreads Through Social
Networks
Logged Number of Tweets on #egypt, by
 Viral Videos Spread the Freedom
Meme
 YouTube and Egyptian uprising
 Four major types of content that
typified Egyptian viral videos:
I.
II.
III.
raw protest and mobilization
footage;
citizen
commentary;
political
punditry;
and
“soundtracks
for
the
revolution..”
 Raw protest and mobilization footage
and 5.5 million views from 23 videos.
Location

13. Finally …
 Revolution in revolution
 Bangladesh perspective
 Malala Yousafzai

14. References
1.
N. Howard, Philip, opening closed regimes, University of Washington.
2. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent
_changes_to_twitters_terms_of_service_mi.php
3.
4.
5.
Demographic data from the CIA World Factbook and World Bank.’s
World Development Indicators database. Technology use data from
the International Telecommunications Union.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/fahmidulhaqblog

15. Thank you all