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Bianca Pernice's List: Digital Demise: Egypt
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Jul 30, 13
This sources cites information used about social networking in Egypt.
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Starting the April 6 Youth Movement
The activists Ahmed Maher and Israa Abdel Fattah establish a Facebook page to encourage support for a workers’ strike planned for April 6. Within weeks the online group swells to 70,000 supporters, and will eventually become the April 6 Youth Movement.
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Jul 31, 13
This sources cites information pertaining to social media and revolt in Egypt.
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It was a diverse movement of demonstrations, marches, plaza occupations, riots, non-violent civil resistance, acts of civil disobedience and labor strikes.
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The communication factors such as the Internet, cell phones, and satellite TV channels, thought to contribute greatly to igniting the revolution,one cannot ignore the role of the mosques and Friday prayers that existed over many centuries and played major roles in changing governments. Not only that the mosques brought the Muslim Brothers to power, but also that the Muslim Brothers imposed threats on all governments from 1928 throughout 2011, as it still does in countries neighboring to Egypt.
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Jul 31, 13
This source provides evidence of corruption within the Murabak regime.
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Hosni Mubarak's cronies face corruption charges in Cairo court
Three stalwarts of the deposed Egyptian president are greeted by angry crowd at courthouse
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Three former stalwarts of Hosni Mubarak's regime have appeared in a Cairo court to face charges ranging from abuse of state power to squandering public wealth.
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Jul 31, 13
This source is pertinent to Egyptian government's involvement in the shutting down of access to the internet during the Egyptian Revolt of 2011.
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he protests were a result of the country’s 30-year rule by former President Hosini Mubarak. Facebook and Twitter were the lifeline of the revolution and through these networks the world saw a first hand view of the revolution through pictures, tweets, and Facebook groups.
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The Egyptian government shut off access to the Internet and text messages on the second day of the mass protest. Their aim was to shut down the revolution; they felt that by doing this it would ultimately eliminate the strength of the revolution. However, the government’s effort to disable ‘insurgent’ communication in Egypt was unsuccessful. Many transnational human rights activists, translators and bloggers used Facebook, Twitter, chatrooms and other social media platforms to relay messages from protestors, journalists and human rights activists to further the grassroots social mobilization while allowing the world to witness step in step exactly what was going on inside of Egypt.
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Jul 31, 13
Source provides evidence of social networking's assistance in the Egyptian revolt.
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Even though Internet service has been halted across Egypt, Twitter engineers have helped Google launch a service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a phone number and leaving a voice message to get their sentiments out to the world. Facebook and Twitter have been wildly popular outlets for the Egyptian people to turn to in organizing their protests.
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Jul 31, 13
Source provides ten minute TED TALK video which focuses on the events of the Egyptian revolution and social media's effect on it.
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Jul 31, 13
Photo reference. Proof of social media's use in Egyptian revolution.
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Sam created a Twitter list to follow feeds from people in Egypt in real time. Just click on this link and you can choose to follow the list or just read the Tweets. An example of some the incredible responses in this list:
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