John Magrosky's List: Mubarak

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• By: Shane, Scott. New York Times. 1/30/2011, p1. 0p.
• Fear is the dictator's traditional tool for keeping the people in check. But by cutting off Egypt's Internet and wireless service late last week in the face of huge street protests, President Hosni Mubarak betrayed his own fear -- that Facebook, Twitter, laptops and smartphones could empower his opponents, expose his weakness to the world and topple his regime.
• 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.

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• Economist. 2/5/2011, Vol. 398 Issue 8719, p29-31. 3p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Map.
• The article presents information on the politics and government of Egypt, as of February 5, 2011. It focuses on protests against the rule of Hosni Mubarak, who has been the president of the country since 1981. During his rule, Egyptian culture is said to have changed, in part because of technologies such as the internet, which have made it harder for governments to suppress information.

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• Nieman Reports; Fall2011, Vol. 65 Issue 3, p51-53, 3p

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• Wilson Quarterly; Spring2011, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p64-66, 3p, 1 Black and White Photograph
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• When Egyptian activist and Google marketing manager Wael Ghonim reflected on the overthrow in February of Hosni Mubarak, he said, "Everything was done by the people [for] the people, and that's the power of the Internet." Some credit a Facebook page with sparking the Egyptian protests. Twitter, too, played a role, but a different one-helping to spread news to audiences in Egypt, but mostly abroad. Ghonim sees great power in these tools. "If you want to liberate [a people]," he said, "give them the Internet."

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  Journalist Malcolm Gladwell assumed the mantle of skeptic in chief with an article in The New Yorker (Oct. 4, 2010) contrasting today's online activists with the young
• Gladwell doesn't mean to say social media are worthless: When people have an array of what social scientists call "weak ties"-such as "friends" on Facebook or contacts on Twitter--they are exposed to a greater range of new ideas and information, surely a good thing. Such tools can make social processes work more efficiently. In 2006, to cite but one small example, strangers coordinated online a successful search for a cell phone lost in a New York City taxicab.
• New technologies have sometimes provided activists with a tool that turned out to be crucial, Shirky responded. The protesters who brought down Philippine president Joseph Estrada in 2001 spread word of their street demonstrations via text message. Social media are not magical. Insurgents may not always prevail (as in Iran in 2009). But on balance, social media will bring "a net improvement for democracy," much as the printing press did.
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