Paper Info
Title
The effects of (social) media on revolutions: perspectives from egypt and the arab spring
Abstract
The Arab Spring has been titled as "social media revolution". While there is no doubt that Facebook and twitter contributed significantly to the course of events, its role can only be understood when put into a broader technological and historical context. Therefore, we looked at the role of technology during prior revolutions such as the French Revolution in 1789. It turns out that media technology has played an important supportive role in social and political movements throughout history. The changing characteristic, however, has always been the speed of information diffusion. Therefore, it is concluded that social media should be seen as supportive but not exclusively responsible for the events of the Arab Spring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39265-8_39
HCI (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
important supportive role,historical context,social media,arab spring,information diffusion,prior revolution,media technology,political movement,social media revolution,french revolution,revolution,democratization,evolution,society
Social media,Media studies,Computer science,Democratization,Politics,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian Sturm112513.63
Hossam Amer210.70