The Spring of the Networked Nations: Social Media and the Arab Spring

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Abstract

This essay argues that social media played an important role in the Arab Spring and contributed to a change in the political culture of some of those countries that have gone through regime-change through 2011-2012. The article further posits that the contribution of social media was mainly instrumental, not causal, and that the main reasons behind the Arab Spring were problems generated by regional, local and global trends, affecting each country differently.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)120-139
Number of pages20
JournalThe Levantine Review
Volume1
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

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