Amber Higgins's List: Digital Citizenship Assignment

• Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 

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• or some Egyptians this is enough. Khan el-Khalili market is usually alive with throngs of tourists buying Egyptian wares. But since the riots began, the locale stands in eerie silence. "Cairo now is bad for life, says Deir el Fishawy, owner of the famous Fishawy Café. "We want change, but not in this way." Indeed, last Friday, estimates appeared that the paralysis resulting from the unrest had been costing the economy an average of US$310 million a day. "People don't want Egypt to suffer more," says Ahmed Saleh, a 23-year-old tour guide. "A lot of changes have been made over the past week. I have been in a demo for six days -- now I have to continue with life."

  • The publicity of the opposition caused a very large decrease in tourist sales costing Egypt millions. 

• • Use of television and telephone
• ," President Barack Obama said in a YouTube interview Thursday. "The government has to be careful about not resorting to violence. And the people on the streets need to be careful about not resorting to violence. And I think that it is very important that people have mechanisms in order to express legitimate grievances."
• Late that night, Mubarak went on national television to tell his people he was listening and would change his cabinet, but with no hint that he might step down himself. Obama phoned Mubarak, then read his own statement at the White House, calling on Egypt to lift restrictions on the Internet and take more meaningful steps toward political reform. "Going forward, this moment of volatility has to be turned into a moment of promise," said Obama. But there was no real question that volatility remained the order of the day.
• But crowds in the streets aren't the only challenge to Mubarak's dictatorship now. For the first time he's facing a new threat as well: crowdsourcing, a kind of collective leadership, elusive and resilient, the likes of which Egypt has never experienced. Its manifestoes--even the chants shouted in the faces of the cops--have been polished by dozens of anonymous editors on a Google document. "We are Egypt's youth on the Internet," they proclaimed on the eve of last Friday's protests. Mubarak cannot keep Egypt unplugged forever, and they know it.
• It's precisely that shift, from sitting down in front of a computer screen to standing up on the streets, that has taken authorities by surprise. Obama showed how it was done in the United States during his 2008 campaign. It wasn't enough to "like" his Facebook page or visit his home page; all sorts of mechanisms were set up to get volunteers raising money and ringing doorbells. Much the same thing is now being done in Egypt by the Khaled Said site, the April 6 Movement, and other groups that move from the conceptual to the concrete, showing people not only how to click a mouse, but also how to use Coca-Cola to wash away the sting of tear gas. It was all in place even before the Tunisian revolt. But the results have surprised everyone. Suddenly people who had never seen a protest were pouring into the streets, not only hotblooded young men and angry workers, but women, mothers, girls--and many discovered that they were leaders, too.

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•  Suleiman, Mubarak’s longtime confidant and a former intelligence chief, announced that Mubarak was stepping down. In a two-sentence statement to state television that took 49 seconds, Egypt’s history changed forever

• by Mohamed Osam  on February 7, 2012 

   

   

   

   
• The Power of Social Medi
• After a month of vacation which I spent in Egypt, I came back more confident of the power of social media, but at the same time realizing how a serious two-edge sword it could be. It was very clear to me that in Egypt, social media with its embedded lack of governance became a tool of igniting people rather than mobilizing them.

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• Computerworld - As Egypt's embattled President Hosni Mubarak gave up his presidency Friday, analysts and some of the Egyptian protestors said he'd still be in charge if not for the power of social networking.
• During a time of unrest that saw Mubarak's regime disconnect Egypt from the Internet for several days, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter served as critical tools for the people seeking to topple the long-time ruler.
• When Egyptians who wanted Mubarak and his administration out began to mobilize, they turned to social networks, specifically Facebook.
• They used social networking sites to engage people -- to motivate them into action, not just online but in the real world
• They needed to use social media to galvanize real action in the real world.

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