New Tools for Science Policy
Bytes and Bodies
Social Media and Political Changes
Was Arab Spring social media driven? Was Egypt revolution a Facebook revolution? Was it a people revolution? Do social media promote democracy? Can it support repressive regimes?
About the Seminar
March 27, 2012 8:30am—10:30am
Was Arab Spring social media driven? Was Egypt revolution a Facebook revolution? Was it a people revolution? Do social media promote democracy? Can it support repressive regimes?
Using the case of Arab Spring, particularly the example from Egypt, this presentation calls for a much more critical approach to the promise of social media. The social impacts of the internet/social media, or ‘change’ in society, are the result of the organic interaction between the technology and social, political, and cultural structures and relationships. Breaking away from both utopian and dystopian tendencies, this presentation shows that our understanding of the actual role of social media in political change should be anchored in relevant history and socio-political context.
Social media should be read beyond its role as a ‘tool’ but also as ‘space’ where various networks of communications and interactions that make up of social movement emerge, connect, collapse, and expand.
Location Information
ASU Washington Center
1834 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
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