The nature of Arab public discourse: Social media and the ‘Arab Spring’

Al-Jenaibi, Badreya

doi:10.1386/ajms.3.2.241_1

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“…In the aftermath of the Arab Spring revolutions in early 2011, teachers and political pundits have tried to determine the reasons and elements that brought about those movements' achievements or failures. While everyone has confronted its very own particular set of political, social, and monetary problems, a not unusual place thread that instructional observers have detected is the more and more not unusual place use of social media for functions of revolution (Al-Jenaibi, 2014).…”

Section: Regional Developments and Arab Springmentioning

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Political Activism, Social Media and Regional Development: A Narrative Analysis of Arab Spring Movement

Gillani¹

2021

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The role of social media during the Arab spring and particularly at the outset of the revolution was indeed instrumental and pivotal. In this study, we see the use of the internet or social media for Arab uprising. Social media proved as a catalyst in the unity of the Arabs against the tyrannical rulers and economic downturns in the Arab world. The story of the Arab Spring began with the suicide of Muhammad Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, who incinerated himself after being subjected to police brutality. The protests had significantly raised many notions for civil rights as their voices and actions had played a triggering role in the revolution. The Arab Spring is the outcome of decades of civil and political unrest of rights as the Arab Spring might herald as the first social revolution in the 21st century as the people now have an individual and collective social voice against the various forms of fear, manipulations, disinformation and control that was from the authoritarian regimes. The research is a narrative and critical analysis of the Arab Spring literature, which discusses its cause, the role of social media, and the regional developments in this regard.

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Section: Regional Developments and Arab Springmentioning

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Political Activism, Social Media and Regional Development: A Narrative Analysis of Arab Spring Movement

Gillani¹

2021

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“…The survey, aimed to get many comments and attitudes from students, was sent on the Ministry's Twitter and Facebook sites (Schools in UAE, 2014). Al-Jenaibi (2014) argued that the most well-known SN tools in the UAE are usually similar to those used in other counties in the Middle East, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and others. UAE students are both generally skilled in the use of a variety of SN, and well aware of its possible moral and practical limitations.…”

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Digital Media Platforms and Education: The Uses of Social Networking in the UAE and China

Al-Jenaibi¹

2015

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Young people today are growing up in a digitalized environment. What challenges do they face in navigating this content-rich, symbolic environment? In this article, the researcher reviews university students' perceptions of media literacy by examining the use of social networking platforms (SN) in academic settings. The researcher distributed 1200 surveys evenly split between Chinese and UAE students and 998 were returned and analyzed. The findings reveal that while many students believe that media literacy should become a priority in modern curricula, this urgency is not felt by the majority of students. The researcher reviews current views and methodologies in the literature related to media literacy and its status in current pedagogy. The study draws from gravitation theory to place the use of SN tools within a broader background of communication. The Uses and Gratification Theory is also invoked to explain how SN was made attractive to campus activists and protesters in the two countries.

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“…The Arab spring became a reference point in many discourses given the role it played in amplifying and accelerating regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Al-Jenaibi (2014) in a survey of respondents from the Arab region found that social media outlets complemented old media and served as a catalyst for the uprisings that have swept several Arab states in the Middle East. Social media was used to mobilize for rioting, street protests and violence in Hungary in 2006.…”

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Regulating social media in Nigeria: A quantitative perception study

Mohammed¹

2021

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The advent of social networks as Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, among others, has revolutionized communications. The power of social media messages rests on its ability to instantly and simultaneously reach a wide, diverse audience, and transforming social life. While the public has overtime become accustomed to the regulation of conventional media like the Radio, TV and Print establishments by government regulatory agencies, the idea of regulating social media, a space which many users consider to be the major avenue to air their views, is one that has generated mixed feelings. This study seeks to understand the perception of everyday Nigerian social media users towards government's attempt to regulation social media, amidst the recently proposed Social Media Regulation Bill by the Nigerian lawmakers. The respondents randomly selected for this study were the University of Abuja students and the researcher adopted the survey research design to collect information from the population through questionnaires. The findings indicated that despite respondents' awareness of the possible demerits of an unregulated social media, majority of them (54%) kick against the idea of social media regulation, while a substantial (46%) support the move on the provision that it is not politicized. The study therefore recommends transparency and openness on the part of government officials for better cooperation by the public. Keywords: Media regulation, Social media regulation, Free speech, Social media bill.

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The nature of Arab public discourse: Social media and the ‘Arab Spring’

Cited by 23 publications

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Political Activism, Social Media and Regional Development: A Narrative Analysis of Arab Spring Movement

Political Activism, Social Media and Regional Development: A Narrative Analysis of Arab Spring Movement

Digital Media Platforms and Education: The Uses of Social Networking in the UAE and China

Regulating social media in Nigeria: A quantitative perception study

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