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Tools of Change: How the Internet Shaped the 'Arab Spring'
This document discusses how digital tools and the internet helped enable activism during the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011. It provides examples of early digital activism in Tunisia and Egypt from 2006 onward around issues like anti-corruption, anti-censorship, and anti-torture. Social media allowed activists to raise awareness, organize, and spread their message among networks of supporters despite facing censorship and suppression from authorities. While internet access was still a privilege, digital platforms provided an important alternate space for dissent.
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- 1. TOOLS OF CHANGE: HOWTHE INTERNET SHAPED THE ‘ARAB SPRING’ JILLIAN C. YORK ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
- 2. “The uprising thatstarted on 25 January 2011 was the result of a long process in which the wall of fear fell, bit by bit… …Nothing aids the erosion of one's fear more than knowing there are others, somewhere else, who share the same desire for liberation – and have started taking action.” -Hossam Hamalawy, 2011
- 3. DIGITAL ACTIVISM IN THEARAB WORLD: A BRIEF HISTORY
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- 13. “Social media hascreated a sort of alternate space for reviving a dormant public consciousness into a sentient, dynamic social discourse.” -Hani Morsi (Egypt)
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- 16. “Whether we likeit or not, the Internet is a classist privilege. Mainstream Arab media isn’t. Hence many rely on these to publish news on the one hand, and to formulate a political vision gradually, at least on the consciousness level, on the other.” -Razan Ghazzawi, 2011 (Syria)
- 17. BARRIERS TO DIGITAL ACTIVISM: •Access • Literacy • Dissonance • Censorship
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- 22. “Our strength willalways stem from the fact that we’ll have one foot in the cyberspace, and, more importantly, the other foot will be on the ground.” • Hossam El-Hamalawy, 2008 (Egypt)
- 23. JILLIAN C. YORK Director,International Freedom of Expression @EFF jillian@eff.org http://jilliancyork.com @jilliancyork
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- #8 Ammar was the censor, sala7 was the ordinary citizen – sayyeb means “leave alone”
- #11 Dutch-Palestinian who got his twitter name as a street in nablus.
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- #20 Jidf – organization that regularly targets facebook pages, has them taken down using community policing functionality.
- #22 Maikelnabil, slim amamou, aliabdulemam, alaaabd el fattah