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Triston Daley's List: 3.6 Digital Assignment

  • Feb 24, 13

    topics.nytimes.com/...index.html Egypt revolution

    • Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world, and its revolution in February 2011 deposing the country’s longtime strongman, Hosni Mubarak, was the capstone event of the Arab Spring, inspiring demonstrators in Libya, Syria and elsewhere.

       

      But the transition to democracy has been anything but smooth, as the country has lurched from crisis to crisis. In the first two years after the revolution, Egypt seemed to break repeatedly into three camps: the military and other supporters of the Mubarak regime; the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic party that had been officially banned but had nonetheless been the country’s largest political force; and the young liberal, secular activists who set off the revolution in the first place.

  • Feb 24, 13

    www.nytimes.com/...20120212-tahir-timeline.html Digital egypt interactive revolution

    • The Digital Road to Egypt’s Revolution

      By DAVID WOLMAN

      A year after Egypt’s revolution inspired the world, we know only fragments of the story. The overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia signaled to Egyptians what might be possible; rising food prices and severe economic hardship put the population on edge; and dissidents deftly used digital technologies to build a movement. But those are conditions for insurrection, not revolution itself. Who set the pieces in place, particularly for the Jan. 25 demonstration that became an uprising, and how did they do it? This timeline highlights the groundwork in the virtual world that helped make revolution a reality.

  • Feb 24, 13

    EBSCOhost: Lex Luger Can Wr te a Hit Rap Song in The Time It Takes to Read This Articl...
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    A few years ago, before anyone knew his name, before rap artists from all over the country started hitting him up for music, the rap producer Lex Luger, born Lexus Lewis, now age 20, sat down in his dad's kitchen in Suffolk, Va., opened a sound-mixing program called Fruity Loops on his laptop and created a new track. It had a thunderous canned-orchestra melody, like an endless loop of some bombastic moment from Wagner or Danny Elfman; a sternum-rattling bass line; and skittering electronic percussion that brought to mind artillery fire. When the track was finished, he e-mailed it to a rapper named Waka Flocka Flame. Luger had recently spent a few months in Atlanta with Waka, sequestered in a basement, producing most of the music for Waka's debut album. Waka had asked him for one more beat, one that could potentially be the album's first single. Months later, Luger -- who says he was ''broke as a joke'' by that point, about to become a father for the second time and seriously considering taking a job stocking boxes in a warehouse -- heard that same beat on the radio, transformed into a Waka song called ''Hard in da Paint.'' Before long, he couldn't get away from it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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  • Feb 24, 13

    A functioning democracy could not possibly have emerged from a process that entailed electing a Parliament and a president before establishing a constitution that outlined their respective powers and their relationship with the army.

    Democracy can survive only where there is rule of law; it cannot take root in a country plagued by legal and political chaos. Egyptian courts have been consumed by disputes over the legality of the Parliament itself, over the constitution-drafting assembly formed by the now-dissolved Parliament, and about how and where the new president will take the oath of office in the absence of a national legislature.

    The uncertainty goes on and on, leaving legal experts and opinion leaders in a constant debate that distracts Egyptians from the ideals for which they waged their revolution.

    www.nytimes.com/...ayal-of-egypts-revolution.html

    • A functioning democracy could not possibly have emerged from a process that entailed electing a Parliament and a president before establishing a constitution that outlined their respective powers and their relationship with the army.

       Democracy can survive only where there is rule of law; it cannot take root in a country plagued by legal and political chaos. Egyptian courts have been consumed by disputes over the legality of the Parliament itself, over the constitution-drafting assembly formed by the now-dissolved Parliament, and about how and where the new president will take the oath of office in the absence of a national legislature.

       The uncertainty goes on and on, leaving legal experts and opinion leaders in a constant debate that distracts Egyptians from the ideals for which they waged their revolution.

  • Feb 25, 13

    www.nytimes.com/...30shane.html mubarak spotlight

    • There was reason for Mr. Mubarak to be shaken. By many accounts, the new arsenal of social networking helped accelerate Tunisia’s revolution, driving the country’s ruler of 23 years, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, into ignominious exile and igniting a conflagration that has spread across the Arab world at breathtaking speed. It was an apt symbol that a dissident blogger with thousands of followers on Twitter, Slim Amamou, was catapulted in a matter of days from the interrogation chambers of Mr. Ben Ali’s regime to a new government post as minister for youth and sports. It was a marker of the uncertainty in Tunis that he had stepped down from the government by Thursday.
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