New Media and the Arab Spring
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Broad outline of Arab Spring dynamics and discourses, and how social media has played a role in mobilization.
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New Media and the Arab Spring
- 1. New Media and the Arab Spring Alexander Hanna Department of Sociology October 4, 2011
- 2. Agenda Narrative of the Arab Spring Focusing on Egypt New Media What's next?
- 3. Narrative of the Arab Spring
- 4. The Spark Tunisia Mohamed Bouazizi Sidi Bouzid Ben Ali #sidibouzid
- 5. The Fuel Egypt Khaled Said Police Day
- 6. The Blaze... Libya Bahrain Syria … (Morocco, Algeria?) Yemen
- 7. Focusing on Egypt January 25 http://www.youtube.com/w January 28 and internet blackout Sustained occupation of Tahrir and other squares
- 8. New Media in Arab Spring Starting from Tunisia, mass attention paid in Twitterverse Not only from US and abroad, but also from other Arab countries Different roles of the medium (will get to in a second...) Includes Arabcentric media ecology AlJazeera, AlArabiyya
- 9. Social Graph of @ifirka (Sami ben Gharbia) [source: giladlotan.com]
- 10. A Big Ado About Social Media Malcolm Gladwell – 'Small Change' Jay Rosen – the generic 'Twitter Cannot Topple Dictators' article Is the ado about... nothing?
- 11. Not 'if' but 'how' Zeynep Tufekci: 'There has been a false debate. Was it social media or the people? Was it social media or the labor movements? Was it social media or antiimperialist movement? Was it social media or youth? These questions are wrong and the answer is yes. The correct question is how.'
- 12. But 'how' exactly? Citizen journalism Internal and External Consensus Mobilization Action Mobilization
- 13. Citizen Journalism Internal Egypt's restrictive media ecology External International solidarity Forcing IR community to pay attention
- 14. Citizen Journalism 'In a dictatorship, independent journalism by default becomes a form of activism, and the spread of information is essentially an act of agitation.'
- 15. Consensus Mobilization Described by Bert Klandermans Attempts to actively mobilize consensus in a population Ideological work 'Frame alignment' (Snow et al. 1986) Priming for action
- 16. Action Mobilization Other side of consensus – getting people to act Coordination and solving of traditional collective action problems
- 17. What happened in Egypt? Initial sense based on interview fieldwork this summer Coordination on January 25 Mutual assurance of protesting PostJan 25: citizen journalism Less consensus mobilization Don't have to convince people that Mubarak is terrible
- 18. Bottom line on social media Like everything, depends on context Media ecology Access Politics Contributes to specific processes
- 19. What's Next? Regimebuilding Still fighting in Syria, Yemen, et al. Social media's role in the future of Egypt? Differing opinions: mobilization different from building institutions
- 20. Thanks! ahanna@ssc.wisc.edu http://alexhanna.com http://twitter.com/alexhanna