The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Alterman, Jon B.

doi:10.1080/0163660x.2011.610714

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“…He concludes, "The Internet is one factor that in tandem with others (satellite TV, youth culture, and the 'globalization' of consumer products, social networks, and ideational configurations) is creating a dynamic of change that is helping to erode the legitimacy of traditional authority structures in family, society, culture/religion, and also the state, and thus creating pressure for reform." Consistent with Hofheinz [2005], the predominant view is that the Internet and social media played a critical role in the Arab Spring of 2010-2011 [Howard et al, 2011, Lotan et al, 2011, Alterman, 2011, Husain and Pollack, 2011, Khamis and Vaughn, 2011, Pollock, 2011, Saletan, 2011, Shirky, 2011, Stepanova, 2011 We develop our model in Section 2 and provide an elementary mathematical analysis in Section 3. This is followed by Section 4 which expands on the interpretation of our model by considering various case studies.…”

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“…Together with cell phones, social media sites vastly sped up the speed with which information travelled, allowing Tunisians -and the entire world -to follow the revolution with unprecedented detail and speed [Lotan et al, 2011, Saletan, 2011, Zhuo et al, 2011. Traditonal media lent its credibility to this new wellspring of information by corroborating and then rebroadcasting stories relating to the size of the revolution and the regime's brutal response [Alterman, 2011].…”

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The Arab Spring: A simple compartmental model for the dynamics of a revolution

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Sterck

2014

Mathematical Social Sciences

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The Arab Spring: A simple compartmental model for the dynamics of a revolution

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Sterck

2014

Mathematical Social Sciences

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“…The actual importance of the internet in this mobilization, compared to other factors such as satellite television, still remains subject to significant debate. 11 However, although many studies have thoroughly examined what media were used by whom and how regimes responded, both online and offline, they do not provide a general theoretical framework that can be transplanted to other authoritarian settings. 12 In addition, single case studies focus on instances of successful mobilization through the internet, raising concerns about selection bias.…”

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From the web to the streets: internet and protests under authoritarian regimes

Ruijgrok

2016

Democratization

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This article systematically investigates the relationship between internet use and protests in authoritarian states and democracies. It argues that unlike in democracies, internet use has facilitated the occurrence of protests in authoritarian regimes, developing a theoretical rationale for this claim and substantiating it with robust empirical evidence. The article argues that whereas information could already flow relatively freely in democracies, the use of the internet has increased access to information in authoritarian regimes despite authoritarian attempts to control cyberspace. The article suggests this increased access to information positively affects protesting in authoritarian states via four complementary causal pathways: (1) by reducing the communication costs for oppositional movements; (2) by instigating attitudinal change; (3) decreasing the informational uncertainty for potential protesters; and (4) through the mobilizing effect of the spread of dramatic videos and images. These causal pathways are illustrated using anecdotal evidence from the Tunisian revolution (2010)(2011). The general claim that internet use has facilitated the occurrence of protests under authoritarian rule is systematically tested in a global quantitative study using country-year data from 1990 to 2013. Internet use increases the expected number of protests in authoritarian states as hypothesized. This effect remains robust across a number of model specifications.

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“…In January 2011 hundreds of thousands, and then millions, of Tunisians went into the streets and demanded change within the context of what has come to be termed in the West 'The Arab Spring' (Alterman, 2011). On 14 January 2011 the Tunisian revolution forced the president of Tunisia to flee the state, after four weeks of mass popular demonstrations (Attia et al, 2011).…”

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A review of the contextual factors associated with the North African business environment - descriptive historical study

Alnaas

James

Scott

2013

AJAAF

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This study compares the contextual factors (culture, political, legal, economic system, and stock exchanges) in three North Africa countries (Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia). The contextual factors of these countries are very similar being Islamic culture and French law. These countries have similarities in their recent histories. They were occupied by European countries which resulted in English and French languages being spoken in this region. Dictatorial governments (regardless of the types of governments -socialist or otherwise) have also controlled these countries for considerable periods of time since independence. In line with international society, an openness policy has been adopted and many reforms have been made in the stock exchange of these countries. However, much work remains to be done. Although contextual factors are similar, each country is in a slightly different place today in regards to economic and capital markets' development. Policy-makers can learn from the experiences of these three NA countries as the obstacles and backgrounds of these three countries are similar. This is the first accounting paper of which we are aware that studies these three NA countries.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Cited by 78 publications

References 6 publications

The Arab Spring: A simple compartmental model for the dynamics of a revolution

The Arab Spring: A simple compartmental model for the dynamics of a revolution

From the web to the streets: internet and protests under authoritarian regimes

A review of the contextual factors associated with the North African business environment - descriptive historical study

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