The Transnational Effects of Social Media in the Arab Spring. The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia
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The Transnational Effects of Social Media in the Arab Spring. The Cases of Egypt and Tunisia
🌐🌐🌐 Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,3, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, language: English, comment: Review by the assessor: This thesis provides a knowledgeable, well structured, eloquent and insightful description of the role of social media - in particular Twitter and Facebook - in the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. The thesis organizes a sizeable and diverse literature and succeeds in making sense of it and adding some creative own ideas., abstract: The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the debate on the impact and influence of social media in the Arab Spring. While numerous studies have addressed individual factors, they generally lack a broad theoretical framework that puts the findings into a compiled perspective. Understanding the dynamics of the Arab uprisings implies a perspective that takes transnational processes into account and is not limited to a case by case assessment. Hence, this thesis will focus on the transnational effects of social media in the Arab Spring, by introducing a diffusion model, displaying the importance of sequence and timing of communication, organization and mobilization. To begin with, (2) the current state of research focusing on protest politics and social media communication will be examined to understand the context of the broad scholarly debate. Secondly, (3) method and case selection will be briefly outlined. Subsequently, (4) the theoretical ...