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New Media and the Arab Spring
The document discusses the role of new media in the Arab Spring, particularly focusing on Egypt's experiences during the protests. It examines how social media facilitated citizen journalism, consensus mobilization, and action mobilization against oppressive regimes. The author emphasizes the importance of context in understanding social media's impact and questions its future role in Egypt after the initial mobilization phase.
New Media and the Arab Spring
- 1. New Media andthe Arab Spring Alexander Hanna Department of Sociology October 4, 2011
- 2. Agenda Narrative of theArab Spring Focusing on Egypt New Media What's next?
- 3. Narrative of theArab 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 inArab 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 AdoAbout 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 inEgypt? 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 onsocial 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