[Air-L] Arab spring & social media evidence

[Montathar Faraon]

This might be interesting to many of you:

How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnPR90dJ3Gk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNd-Zm0K9A
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pwovLCwBTY
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1HGDWvvHI

Each part is 15 minutes.

Kind regards,
Montathar

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:47 AM, paolo massa <paolo at gnuband.org> wrote:

> Hi!
> We have written a paper titled "Collective memory building in
> Wikipedia: The case of North African uprisings"
> in which we look at how hundreds of editors of Wikipedia collaborated
> in building the collective memory of the Egyptian revolution, in real
> time, as the traumatic events unfolded.
> Wikipedia is of course different from Facebook and Twitter but it is
> built in a bottom-up fashion by "normal people" as the other social
> media. One of the differences is that while on Facebook or Twitter you
> can write what you want, on Wikipedia you have to mediate with other
> people's perspectives and (try to) reach a Neutral Point Of View. This
> is especially hard for traumatic events and during the first days.
>
> I'm going to present the paper at WikiSym (3 October 2011, Mountain
> View) so any suggestion/criticism is more than welcome!
> The paper can be found at
>
> http://www.gnuband.org/papers/collective_memory_building_in_wikipedia_the_case_of_north_african_uprisings/
>
> Paolo
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:52 PM, nativebuddha <nativebuddha at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone have evidence (or links to studies) that show the impact, or
> > lack thereof, of social media on the Arab spring? This cause-effect model
> > still circulates in the mediasphere, but what is the evidence show?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Robert
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