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ARAB SPRING

Arab Spring

A town where many did not know nothing of protests or democracy.

Revolutions in Arab countries.

Beginning in Tunisia in December 2010.

Protesters challenged the existing of authoritarian regimes.

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Dictatorship. Absolute monarchy. Human rights violations. Government corruption. Economic decline. Unemployment.

o Causes

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These movements call for:

Democratization. New constitutions that

protect equality. Free speech and assembly. Fair elections.

The flame that burned Tunisia.

The Arab revolution started in Tunisia by a guy called Mohamed Bouazizi.

He was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire, in front of the local governor’s office to protest that unsustainable situation.

His act became an impulse for Arab Spring starting from his country.

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The Arab revolution has been going like a domino game in a short time period.

The biggest mediums were used to help spread the protests (Facebook, Twitter and other social networks) and to instigate people, especially young men and women, to join the opposition movements.

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• In a region dominated by the official media , social networks allowed young people to make the world hear the voice of the "Arab Spring”.

‘’Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation!’’

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• During these years the Arab Spring flooded the whole world of information through traditional media and through social networks.

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The " online " movements were combined with "offline“ demonstrations, precipitating the fall of dictators.

The " online " movements were combined with "offline“ demonstrations, precipitating the fall of dictators.

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• Social networks have not only been powerful tools for organizing the uprisings of the Arab Spring, but also that journalists have first hand information on these events. In Egypt have Internet

access approximately 17 million people in a total population of 83

million.

In Tunisia and Libya is much smaller the number of users connected to the

Internet.

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Overall the use of the social media helped aid in the spread of the news of the protests as well as ways to inspire

others from all over the world to join in virtually through the media if they were

unable to in real life.

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#Hashtags are used to group together tweets relating to the same subject.

On Twitter alone, several millions of tweets containing the hashtags #libya or #egypt were generated during 2011, both by directly affected citizens of these countries, and by onlookers from further afield.

Some became powerful brands that identified the movement.

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Women have been an integral part of these

revolutions, organizing and marching alongside

men.

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’’(…) government of the people, by the people,

for the people shall not perish from the earth’’

Abraham Lincoln