3.1 Social Protest & Media Flashcards
Social media allows for the establishing of what?
Networks of resistance
Internet activists vocalise what?
Their concerns calling for collective action
What is citizen journalism?
Use of media to document experiences/concerns
Who is an example of citizen journalism?
Mohammad’s cousin
What is an issue with citizen journalism?
Not always accurate
What can states do in response to online activism?
Shut the internet down
Produce counter information
Why is it difficult to assess use of digital media in social protest?
Online activities combine with offline e.g. Demonstrations
Hard to know how much would have happened without social media
(Columbia) when and where?
2008
Barranquilla
(Columbia) what had happened in Columbia?
Group called FARC holding 700 hostages in jungles
(Columbia) who was Emmanuel?
Little boy who was ill
Everyone wanted his freedom
(Columbia) who made a Facebook group, when and what was it called?
Morales
4th January
1 million voices against FARC
(Columbia) by the next morning how many had joined the group?
1500
(Columbia) by the end of march how many had joined?
350000
(Columbia) what occurred on February 4th?
International march
12 million people marching in protest
(Columbia) what happened as a result of the protest?
3 hostages released
15 rescued one was a presidential candidate
(Columbia) Facebook fuelled what?
Activism
(Columbia) what happened to Emmanuel?
Dumped with a family in poverty while FARC negotiated his release with the government
(Egypt) what was the Facebook group called and why?
We are all khaled said
In memory of a young activist beaten to death by police
(Egypt) the group was joined by how many?
Tens of thousands
(Egypt) the group called for supporters to protest against what and what day was chosen?
Police brutality
25th Jan as it was national police day
(Egypt) who was Asmaa Mahfouz?
Student from Cairo university
Founder of youth movement
(Egypt) what did Asmaa do?
Posted a blog saying we are going to Tahir on Jan 25th
(Egypt) Asmaa’s vlog is called the vlog that did what?
Sparked the revolution
(Egypt) the cal to action spread through where?
Social media
(Egypt) tens of thousands gathered where, doing what?
Tahrir square
Demonstrating
Calling for Murbaracks resignation
(Egypt) what was the Friday of rage?
Violent efforts of police
Protestors seized control of the city, government buildings and police stations
(Egypt) it eventually led to what?
Murbaracks resignation
(Tunisia) bouazzi did what?
Immolated himself in protest against humiliation and confiscation of his fruit stand after refusing to pay a bribe
(Tunisia) a series of what occurred outside the same building?
Symbolic suicides
(Tunisia) police responded to these suicides by doing what?
Killing 147
(Tunisia) his cousin recorded the protest and shared it provoking what?
Demonstrations all over Tunisia and calls of action in the streets
(Tunisia) Jan 22nd 2011 the convoy of liberty reached Kasbah calling for what?
Government resignation
(Tunisia) the protestors did what?
Set up tents Sang protest songs Slogans Debates Videos posted online
(Tunisia) the media mobilised protestors giving them what?
A voice
(Tunisia) it led to the abolishing of what?
The corrupt government
Social media has also led to what?
Rise in religious fundamentalism online
As well as terrorism and extremism
