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Social Media and the Arab Spring: Revolution, Censorship, and Freedom

Join as panelists discuss the current state of social media in the Middle East and its future prospects.

   Audience Public - RSVP
  By Heritage Foundation
  From 13/02/2013 to 13/02/2013
  Place Lehrman Auditorium
 
 Article

Social media played a visible and unprecedented role in the Middle East uprisings of two years ago. From the video of the Tunisian fruit vendor that went viral on YouTube sparking the chain of events to the coordination of mass demonstrations and crowdsourcing of news stories, new ground in mass communication was broken daily. Autocratic governments in the region had little experience in reacting to this challenge to their control. That has changed. Governments, particularly Syria and Iran, have developed highly sophisticated strategies for dealing with the outburst of freedom on the Internet, imprisoning cyber activists and employing an army of cyber police and censors. The tension between the desire for freedom and the urge to control is playing itself out over Internet platforms as on the street. Join us as our panelists discuss the current state of social media in the Middle East and its future prospects. http://www.heritage.org/events/2013/02/social-media-and-the-arab-spring


 
 
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