[Air-L] Arab spring & social media evidence

[Dr. Rasha Abdulla]

Hi Robert,

I have a survey off Tahrir Square that aims to scientifically establish that
link. Unfortunately I've been too busy to look at the data so far. I've
spoken about how I believe things happened in this domain. (I've been
researching online communication in the Arab world for a decade, and have
three books on the subject). Here's a link to a presentation I gave a couple
of months ago at Personal Democracy Forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDeOdEtmE70

I'm also writing about this in the Egypt report of the Mapping Digital Media
project, which I'm now finalizing and should be online shortly.

Hope this helps.
Best regards.
Rasha



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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Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Journalism and Mass Communication
The American University in Cairo
www.rashaabdulla.com
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