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1
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Social media allows for the establishing of what?

A

Networks of resistance

2
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Internet activists vocalise what?

A

Their concerns calling for collective action

3
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What is citizen journalism?

A

Use of media to document experiences/concerns

4
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Who is an example of citizen journalism?

A

Mohammad’s cousin

5
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What is an issue with citizen journalism?

A

Not always accurate

6
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What can states do in response to online activism?

A

Shut the internet down

Produce counter information

7
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Why is it difficult to assess use of digital media in social protest?

A

Online activities combine with offline e.g. Demonstrations

Hard to know how much would have happened without social media

8
Q

(Columbia) when and where?

A

2008

Barranquilla

9
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(Columbia) what had happened in Columbia?

A

Group called FARC holding 700 hostages in jungles

10
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(Columbia) who was Emmanuel?

A

Little boy who was ill

Everyone wanted his freedom

11
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(Columbia) who made a Facebook group, when and what was it called?

A

Morales
4th January
1 million voices against FARC

12
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(Columbia) by the next morning how many had joined the group?

A

1500

13
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(Columbia) by the end of march how many had joined?

A

350000

14
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(Columbia) what occurred on February 4th?

A

International march

12 million people marching in protest

15
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(Columbia) what happened as a result of the protest?

A

3 hostages released

15 rescued one was a presidential candidate

16
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(Columbia) Facebook fuelled what?

A

Activism

17
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(Columbia) what happened to Emmanuel?

A

Dumped with a family in poverty while FARC negotiated his release with the government

18
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(Egypt) what was the Facebook group called and why?

A

We are all khaled said

In memory of a young activist beaten to death by police

19
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(Egypt) the group was joined by how many?

A

Tens of thousands

20
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(Egypt) the group called for supporters to protest against what and what day was chosen?

A

Police brutality

25th Jan as it was national police day

21
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(Egypt) who was Asmaa Mahfouz?

A

Student from Cairo university

Founder of youth movement

22
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(Egypt) what did Asmaa do?

A

Posted a blog saying we are going to Tahir on Jan 25th

23
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(Egypt) Asmaa’s vlog is called the vlog that did what?

A

Sparked the revolution

24
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(Egypt) the cal to action spread through where?

A

Social media

25
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(Egypt) tens of thousands gathered where, doing what?

A

Tahrir square
Demonstrating
Calling for Murbaracks resignation

26
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(Egypt) what was the Friday of rage?

A

Violent efforts of police

Protestors seized control of the city, government buildings and police stations

27
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(Egypt) it eventually led to what?

A

Murbaracks resignation

28
Q

(Tunisia) bouazzi did what?

A

Immolated himself in protest against humiliation and confiscation of his fruit stand after refusing to pay a bribe

29
Q

(Tunisia) a series of what occurred outside the same building?

A

Symbolic suicides

30
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(Tunisia) police responded to these suicides by doing what?

A

Killing 147

31
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(Tunisia) his cousin recorded the protest and shared it provoking what?

A

Demonstrations all over Tunisia and calls of action in the streets

32
Q

(Tunisia) Jan 22nd 2011 the convoy of liberty reached Kasbah calling for what?

A

Government resignation

33
Q

(Tunisia) the protestors did what?

A
Set up tents
Sang protest songs
Slogans
Debates 
Videos posted online
34
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(Tunisia) the media mobilised protestors giving them what?

A

A voice

35
Q

(Tunisia) it led to the abolishing of what?

A

The corrupt government

36
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Social media has also led to what?

A

Rise in religious fundamentalism online

As well as terrorism and extremism

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