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Political Divide Shapes Social Media Bubbles on X and Bluesky
30 Jan 2025 11:04 GMT
Red social media, blue social media. Our social media platforms are turning into isolated … Demographics of Social Media: Two Waves
From the start, social media platforms were … Twitter revolutions everywhere, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.
When …
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Saving history: These archivist's mission to preserve social media record of war in Gaza
27 Jan 2025 18:38 GMT
… shutdown and massive censorship by social media companies, the documenting of genocide … 2010s, known as The Arab Spring, smartphones and social media played an immeasurable role … they increasingly face censorship from social media platforms.
Meta's …
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Spanish Prime Minister Warned Social Media Could 'Overthrow Democracy'
22 Jan 2025 21:47 GMT
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How Social Media Is A Threat To Democracy
Social media networks weren… conflicts of interests by governments, social media, companies, and specific interests among … social media had proven to be a vital lifeline during the 2011 Arab Spring …
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The problem with social media in political activism
17 Jan 2025 13:04 GMT
… consistently been that while social media platforms promise and … case and the entire Arab Spring did not happen … sporadically staging the biggest social media protests ever witnessed in … it through recording. Social media platforms work through mobilization …
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Egypt fears Syria’s revolutionary fervour could be contagious
08 Feb 2025 23:57 GMT
… hashtag gathered steam on Egyptian social media: “It’s your turn, dictator … a turbulent history since the Arab Spring uprisings that started in late …
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How social media has shaped Georgia’s protests
14 Jan 2025 12:46 GMT
… political tensions, driven largely by social media. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, … movements like ‘Daitove’ showcase how social media has fundamentally reshaped activism and … 2012, the Arab Spring movement used the power of social media to organise and …
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Editorial: Social media users need diverse info to overcome divisions
14 Jan 2025 06:50 GMT
… 2024. (Mainichi/Kenji Shimizu)
Social media has become informational infrastructure used … 2011, known as the "Arab Spring," coincided with the spread … where political statements spread through social media have incited violence. Trump supporters …
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What Syria's new leaders can learn from the Arab Spring
20 Dec 2024 09:05 GMT
As Syrians across the world celebrated the fall of Assad, warnings from citizens of other former dictatorships have proliferated on social media, the Financial Times reported. In Egypt, the new Islamist rulers proved inattentive to the country’s economic …
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Toxic Citizenship, Everyday Extremism and Social Media Governance
17 Dec 2024 05:57 GMT
… the Arab Spring the early 2010s (Comunello & Anzera, 2012). Yet social media … Framework for Understanding the Social Media and the Arab Spring”. Islam and Christian– … Illegal Content and Behaviour on Social Media”. International Journal of Cybersecurity …
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Opinion: 14 Years On, The Arab Spring Morphs Into An Islamic Winter
16 Dec 2024 12:52 GMT
… spread of satellite television and social media leap-frogging over the state … why, despite initial success, the Arab Spring almost universally failed to reform … for this letdown.
Firstly, the Arab Spring movements were initially largely spontaneous …