ARAB SPRING

Rosa Snchez Gayoso

Neus Cerd Mairata

Arab Spring

Revolutions in Arab countries.

Beginning in Tunisia in December
2010.
Protesters challenged the existing
of authoritarian regimes.

A town where many did not know nothing of protests or democracy.

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o Causes
Dictatorship.
Absolute monarchy.
Human rights violations.
Government corruption.
Economic decline.
Unemployment.

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These movements call for:

Democratization.
New constitutions that protect
equality.
Free speech and assembly.
Fair elections.

The flame that burned Tunisia.

The Arab revolution started in Tunisia

by a guy called Mohamed Bouazizi.

He was a Tunisian street vendor who set

himself on fire, in front of the local

governors office to protest that
unsustainable situation.
His act became an impulse for Arab

Spring starting from his country.

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The Arab revolution has been going like a domino game in a short time period.
The biggest mediums were used to help spread the protests (Facebook, Twitter and

other social networks) and to instigate people, especially young men and women, to
join the opposition movements.

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In a region dominated by the

official media , social networks
allowed young people to make the
world hear the voice of the "Arab
Spring.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only
way of liberation!

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During these years the Arab Spring flooded the whole world of
information through traditional media and through social
networks.

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The " online " movements were combined with "offline demonstrations,
precipitating the fall of dictators.

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Social networks have not only been powerful tools for organizing
the uprisings of the Arab Spring, but also that journalists have
first hand information on these events.
In Egypt have Internet
access approximately 17
million people in a total
population of 83 million.

In Tunisia and Libya is

much smaller the number
of users connected to the
Internet.

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Overall the use of the social media helped aid

in the spread of the news of the protests as
well as ways to inspire others from all over
the world to join in virtually through the
media if they were unable to in real life.

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On Twitter alone, several millions of

tweets containing the hashtags #libya
or #egypt were generated during 2011,
both by directly affected citizens of
these countries, and by onlookers from
further afield.

#Hashtags are used to group together tweets relating to the same

subject.
Some became powerful brands that identified the movement.

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Women have been an

integral part of these
revolutions, organizing and
marching alongside men.

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() government of the people, by the

people,
for the people shall not perish from the
earth
Abraham Lincoln