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International and Intercultural Communication
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
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Social Media As Precursor To Arab Revolt, Mark D Harmon, Brittany Rose Nauta
Social Media As Precursor To Arab Revolt, Mark D Harmon, Brittany Rose Nauta
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
This research examines the use of the Internet and social media as related to 2011 to 2012 Arab protests and civic unrest, testing the widespread belief that communication revolutions played a large role in the political revolutions sometimes known as the Arab Spring. The researchers take a two-pronged approach. They examine the pre-uprising communication firmament in Egypt, specifically seeking and finding correlation between Internet use and political dissatisfaction. This was done using a secondary analysis of the Egypt portion of the 2008 World Values Survey. Secondly, the researchers use secondary analysis of the Arab Barometer, first wave 2006-2007, seeking and …