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- Title
#ArabSpring: Information Flows, Networked Dissent, and Resonant Frames: ICTs in the 2011 MENA Uprisings.
- Authors
Pis, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The debate over the role of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Arab Spring is especially relevant given their ubiquity in modern society. Before the uprisings, ICTs played an important role in providing a platform for dissent and cyber-activism in Tunisia and Egypt. ICTs equally facilitated the creation of online opposition networks that spread information about repres-sive regimes and coalesced around shared grievances. ICTs not only com-prised the hardware of communications tools utilized during mass uprisings, but they also provided for the instantaneous diffusion of a singular event over an entire region. Domestically, the significance of ICTs can be measured in terms of regime responses to mass mobilization. Internationally, ICTs played an integral role in framing the salience of mobilization across borders. Argu-ably, ICTs are an important factor to consider as they contributed to the tim-ing, speed, and spread of uprisings across the region.
- Subjects
TUNISIA; EGYPT; TRANSBORDER data flow; WORLD Bank. Middle East &; North Africa Region; INFORMATION technology; MODERN society; CYBERSPACE; ARAB Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012
- Publication
Hemispheres, 2012, Vol 35, p105
- ISSN
0738-9825
- Publication type
Article