3.1 Social Protest & Media

Question 1

Social media allows for the establishing of what?

Answer 1

Networks of resistance

Question 2

Internet activists vocalise what?

Answer 2

Their concerns calling for collective action

Question 3

What is citizen journalism?

Answer 3

Use of media to document experiences/concerns

Question 4

Who is an example of citizen journalism?

Answer 4

Mohammad’s cousin

Question 5

What is an issue with citizen journalism?

Answer 5

Not always accurate

Question 6

What can states do in response to online activism?

Answer 6

Shut the internet down

Produce counter information

Question 7

Why is it difficult to assess use of digital media in social protest?

Answer 7

Online activities combine with offline e.g. Demonstrations

Hard to know how much would have happened without social media

Question 8

(Columbia) when and where?

Answer 8

2008

Barranquilla

Question 9

(Columbia) what had happened in Columbia?

Answer 9

Group called FARC holding 700 hostages in jungles

Question 10

(Columbia) who was Emmanuel?

Answer 10

Little boy who was ill

Everyone wanted his freedom

Question 11

(Columbia) who made a Facebook group, when and what was it called?

Answer 11

Morales
4th January
1 million voices against FARC

Question 12

(Columbia) by the next morning how many had joined the group?

Answer 12

1500

Question 13

(Columbia) by the end of march how many had joined?

Answer 13

350000

Question 14

(Columbia) what occurred on February 4th?

Answer 14

International march

12 million people marching in protest

Question 15

(Columbia) what happened as a result of the protest?

Answer 15

3 hostages released

15 rescued one was a presidential candidate

Question 16

(Columbia) Facebook fuelled what?

Answer 16

Activism

Question 17

(Columbia) what happened to Emmanuel?

Answer 17

Dumped with a family in poverty while FARC negotiated his release with the government

Question 18

(Egypt) what was the Facebook group called and why?

Answer 18

We are all khaled said

In memory of a young activist beaten to death by police

Question 19

(Egypt) the group was joined by how many?

Answer 19

Tens of thousands

Question 20

(Egypt) the group called for supporters to protest against what and what day was chosen?

Answer 20

Police brutality

25th Jan as it was national police day

Question 21

(Egypt) who was Asmaa Mahfouz?

Answer 21

Student from Cairo university

Founder of youth movement

Question 22

(Egypt) what did Asmaa do?

Answer 22

Posted a blog saying we are going to Tahir on Jan 25th

Question 23

(Egypt) Asmaa’s vlog is called the vlog that did what?

Answer 23

Sparked the revolution

Question 24

(Egypt) the cal to action spread through where?

Answer 24

Social media

Question 25

(Egypt) tens of thousands gathered where, doing what?

Answer 25

Tahrir square
Demonstrating
Calling for Murbaracks resignation

Question 26

(Egypt) what was the Friday of rage?

Answer 26

Violent efforts of police

Protestors seized control of the city, government buildings and police stations

Question 27

(Egypt) it eventually led to what?

Answer 27

Murbaracks resignation

Question 28

(Tunisia) bouazzi did what?

Answer 28

Immolated himself in protest against humiliation and confiscation of his fruit stand after refusing to pay a bribe

Question 29

(Tunisia) a series of what occurred outside the same building?

Answer 29

Symbolic suicides

Question 30

(Tunisia) police responded to these suicides by doing what?

Answer 30

Killing 147

Question 31

(Tunisia) his cousin recorded the protest and shared it provoking what?

Answer 31

Demonstrations all over Tunisia and calls of action in the streets

Question 32

(Tunisia) Jan 22nd 2011 the convoy of liberty reached Kasbah calling for what?

Answer 32

Government resignation

Question 33

(Tunisia) the protestors did what?

Answer 33

Set up tents
Sang protest songs
Slogans
Debates 
Videos posted online

Question 34

(Tunisia) the media mobilised protestors giving them what?

Answer 34

A voice

Question 35

(Tunisia) it led to the abolishing of what?

Answer 35

The corrupt government

Question 36

Social media has also led to what?

Answer 36

Rise in religious fundamentalism online

As well as terrorism and extremism