Mohamed Bouazizi
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- Feb 2025
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www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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- Nov 2018
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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As regime after regime fell, the world watched transfixed, glued to the social media feeds of thousands of young people from the region who had taken to tweeting, streaming, and reporting from the ground.
I'm reminded of Gil Scott-Heron's seminal 1970 song The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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- Dec 2015
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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That’s how Isis is recruiting and growing.
Wow. Blaming "the stream" of social media for ISIS! How does that square with the celebration of social media as democratizing force in the Arab Spring?...
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- Jun 2015
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www.salon.com www.salon.com
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the social media narrative recalled Cold War ideas that capitalist technology would triumph over communist inefficiency, as if people in the Middle East couldn’t have rebelled on their own without the gifts of American entrepreneurs. In the end, whatever was tweeted, there was no Twitter revolution in Iran.
Would like to know more about the Cold War ideas referenced above.
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