SOCIAL WEB ROLE

Social Web Role in Arab Spring and Occupy Movement

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Social Web Role in Arab Spring and Occupy Movement

Introduction

Social networking is a new advancement in communication through the internet. It is getting popularity among the people especially in the young generation. It is a good mode of interaction with the outside world. Like every other thing, it also has some benefits, and short comings, which make it useful or harmful. The discussion on social networking is as follows, I will discuss in this paper about some of the points which will tell that how social networking is useful. However, it played an important role in the Arab spring and occupy movement. The governments had to suffer because of the people who combined with the help of social network and created a notion that took a revolutionary turn (Boyd, & Ellison, 2008).

However, social network does not have much history but in such a short span of time it has done wonders. Around 2001 and 2002 appear the first sites that promote networks of friends. By 2003 become popular with the advent of sites such as Friendster, Tribe and Myspace. Soon some companies started entering social networks. Google launches in January 2004 Orkut supporting an experiment conducted by one of its employees in their spare time (Boyd, & Ellison, 2008).

Thesis Statement

The paper concentrates on how the social web has played a big part in the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement (Wall Street). However, the social technology has been able to bring together a large amount of people with a shared concern and has transformed the world.

Discussion

Arab Spring

The Western media praised the role the Internet and "liberator" during the Iranian revolution of 2009. According to The New York Times, the demonstrators "shot tweets" against bullets. Internet expert, developed in his eponymous book 'The Net Delusion', questions the role of the Internet as a tool for democratization. It is true that the Internet is used by the dissidents, but also by the authorities to disseminate official propaganda and to strengthen supervision and control of the population. Internet is primarily a tool, used for better and for worse. In the most divided, creating a space of freedom that would not exist otherwise (Tufekci, 2008). It's potential for dissemination of information irritating to dictators and becomes ineffective traditional methods of censorship. Thus, some systems are provided with resources to monitor dissidents, especially via Facebook and Twitter, and infiltrate their networks.

The year 2010 saw the consecration of social networks and the role of the Web as a tool for mobilization and information dissemination. 250 million Facebook users joined in 2010. At year end, the social network had 600 million members. 175 million people use Twitter in September 2010, i.e. 100 million more than last year. The terms "Twitter revolution" and "Facebook Revolution" became fashionable thanks to the events that marked the Arab world in late 2010 and early ...