Social Media and Its Role in the A rab Spring
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076594 |
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| Authors | Piergiorgio Degli Esposti (0000-0001-8930-0859, University of Bologna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0995 |
| OpenAlex | W4237273098 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The Arab Spring was a wave of revolutionary protests, both violent and nonviolent, that started in Tunisia in 2010. Mass protests took place, giving rise to a domino effect across the Middle East and North Africa that also involved other countries in the Arabian Gulf. A chain reaction followed, the result of the so‐called demonstration effect of democratization, which occurs when, in a sequence of events, a political figure is inspired by the previous one, emulating seemingly successful tactics and deriving an additional benefit from the effect of amplification through the means of mass communication. This amplification in the case of Arab Spring was the result of the interaction between social media and traditional media
Democracy · Democratization · Mass media · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Spring (device · Engineering · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Political and Social Issues
| Highly cited | No |
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