CAIRO - The Egyptian Interior Ministry's website, moiegypt. gov. eg, is no longer available for hours, it is unclear whether a government decision or a successful hacking attempt. And social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook, are "offline." Despite the difficulties of connecting, this is the news media who arrive directly on the protests in Egypt.
An ability to link technological stride with the chronicles of the battles in the street, fought with stone throwing, told with visual and textual chronicles, through blogs and pages created for the occasion. The organization of the protests was made on the Internet: the authorities were reported from different places and used for rallies.
Facebook and Twitter. More than 85,000 users who have used the social network to organize the protest in Cairo. The activist groups of the '6 April Youth 'and have launched Kyfaia calls through Twitter. Use of the Internet has certainly found an organizational model similar to that used in Tunisia.
A model that apparently makes it easier to work with the police. But this time it was used to confuse the squares indicated by official Facebook page dedicated to places indicated protest-owl. A trick that could be costly to the demonstrators: the gatherings are not allowed into Egypt for a crime that potentially anyone could be arrested in the square.
What emerges from the way the protests were organized, dealing not only with the procedures and the official notice is a new and unique role of social media as a new vehicle for the organization of civic and political activities. One way that people all over the world have learned to use immediately and effectively.
A real "political process" which is already considered a fundamental right, and whose eventual permanent blockade could open important legal and social cleavages.
An ability to link technological stride with the chronicles of the battles in the street, fought with stone throwing, told with visual and textual chronicles, through blogs and pages created for the occasion. The organization of the protests was made on the Internet: the authorities were reported from different places and used for rallies.
Facebook and Twitter. More than 85,000 users who have used the social network to organize the protest in Cairo. The activist groups of the '6 April Youth 'and have launched Kyfaia calls through Twitter. Use of the Internet has certainly found an organizational model similar to that used in Tunisia.
A model that apparently makes it easier to work with the police. But this time it was used to confuse the squares indicated by official Facebook page dedicated to places indicated protest-owl. A trick that could be costly to the demonstrators: the gatherings are not allowed into Egypt for a crime that potentially anyone could be arrested in the square.
What emerges from the way the protests were organized, dealing not only with the procedures and the official notice is a new and unique role of social media as a new vehicle for the organization of civic and political activities. One way that people all over the world have learned to use immediately and effectively.
A real "political process" which is already considered a fundamental right, and whose eventual permanent blockade could open important legal and social cleavages.
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- 3 Die in Egypt; Crowds Demand Mubarak's Exit (25/01/2011)
- Egypt Bans Twitter To Fight Protests [Foreign Affairs] (25/01/2011)
- Whoa, This Is What Is Happening in Egypt Right Now (25/01/2011)
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