THE SPRING OF THE NETWORKED NATIONS: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE ARAB SPRING

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  • Harel Chorev

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/lev.v1i2.3051

Abstract

This essay argues that social media played an important role in the Arab Spring and contributed to a change in the political culture of some of those countries that have gone through regime-change through 2011-2012. The article further posits that the contribution of social media was mainly instrumental, not causal, and that the main reasons behind the Arab Spring were problems generated by regional, local and global trends, affecting each country differently.

 

Author Biography

Harel Chorev

Harel Chorev is a lecturer and researcher in the department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His fields of interest are Network Analysis and its implementation in Middle Eastern studies, history of the Family, Palestinian history, Lebanese history and Internet in the Middle East.

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Published

2012-12-12

How to Cite

Chorev, H. (2012). THE SPRING OF THE NETWORKED NATIONS: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE ARAB SPRING. The Levantine Review, 1(2), 120–139. https://doi.org/10.6017/lev.v1i2.3051

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