EA WorldView - Home - Tunisia and the Real Net Effect: How Facebookers Changed Politics and Newsrooms (Ruiz-Goiriena)

Romina Ruiz-Goiriena writes for The Huffington Post: When thousands took to the World Wide Web from Tehran to protest the result of the presidential elections the summer of 2009, traditional western media's first instinct was to turn a blind eye. It wasn't until days later when massive networks of activists and students were operating strictly through Twitter that outlets like CNN finally figured

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Tunisia is only the first of many countries where youth are choosing to use Facebook and Twitter to organize protests after years of silence. "We have seen that Facebook has already been deployed in Algeria and Mauritania and with elections coming up next year in Egypt, authoritarian governments kno