If you are interested in some the lead-up to Tunisia and Egypt, we recently dug into our archives and re-posted some interesting online artifacts at the following hashtag: https://twitter.com/#!/p_ITPI/status/118675727985033216 mm On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Muzammil M. Hussain <tcrnbv@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello, thank you for including some of our work -- you might also be interested in pre-Arab Spring digmedia and politics bibliographies, and our running Zotero public library -- listed here: http://pitpi.org/index.php/research/publications/
-Muzammil
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:44 AM, nativebuddha <nativebuddha@gmail.com>wrote:
Here's what I sifted out from responses to my call for empirical work on the Arab Spring. Thanks to everyone who responded.
-robert
*Social Media and the Arab Spring*
*General argument about Arab Spring and/or social media:*
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/07/facebook-twitter-revolut...
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/egypt/PMag-1107-Egypt-o...
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67812/asef-bayat/the-post-islamist-re...
Howard, Phillip "The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,"
http://poliecon.com/2011/09/08/information-manipulation-coordination-and-reg... flows and regimes)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/24/facebook.revolution/index.ht...
http://blogs.taz.de/netizenblog/2011/03/16/netizens_egypt_tahrir_square/(bac... on Egypt)
http://www.gnuband.org/files/papers/Ferron_Massa_Collective_memory_building_... wikipedia fits in)
*Empirical study:*
Howard et al = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12947477/reports/pITPI_datamemo_2011.pdf
http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1246/613 (Information flows during Tunisian and Egytian revolutions/Tweets)
*Regarding the Internet Shutdown in Egypt:*
“New Social Networks with Old Technology - What the Egyptian Shutdown tells us about Social Media” (Dan McQuillan)
http://www.internetartizans.co.uk/socnets_with_old_tech_egypt
Abstract
Egypt is the latest in a series of countries to witness the
powerful potential of modern social media to catalyse and mobilise
people around social issues. The Egyptian government response was to
have the internet and mobile networks completely shut down. This was,
however, not the end of the role that social media ideas played in the
events that followed. People inside and outside of Egypt collaborated to
re-create the missing networks using the still-available technologies
of landlines, dial-up and ham radio.
This paper argues that this use of
pre-digital technologies to form the kinds of infrastructure afforded by
modern social technologies is evidence of a radical change in people’s
perceptions of their world and its connectedness. Social media has
constituted a real change that goes beyond specific technologies. This
flies in the face of many sceptical critics who argue that new
technologies only reinforce old practices and social structures.
This view of the effects of social media
presents a challenge to its study. Technological studies and formal
analyses of relationships inscribed in social networks will never be
able to capture fully the way people understand and interact with these
technologically-enabled structures.
In this paper, I use the internet
shutdown in Egypt to raise issues that I believe need to be considered
in analysing the influence of social media on social movements. I
discuss how existing models need to become hybridic, heterogeneous and
responsive to the grassroots appropriation of technology, especially the
future creation of alternatives to the corporate internet. In
conclusion, I analyse the phrase 'Egypts Facebook Youth' as the emblem
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