Social Media, Facebook Help People Stand Up in Tunisia, Egypt...

            Social media is a kind of media that is highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies and it also known as social instrument of communication. The demonstration and politics have a fight in Egypt which it started in Tunisia in December 17 when the a young fruit vendor act as a protest. The main problem for this is that the official media which is newspaper, radio or television did not cover the event and this problem becomes worse when the reporter faced a problem of being harass on their way to city of sidi bouzid (Coz 2011). 

            Sidi Bouzid became a popular Twitter hashtag, and Facebook began filling with reports and information. The Internet was the place where pictures and videos of government repression were assembled for the world to see (Coz 2011). Due to the newspapers is being controlled by government in Tunisia; facebook has become one of the only medium for people where there is a freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is important in any country because people that live in the country have a right to voice out their disagreement of anything that the government has suggested. Facebook and YouTube has been blocked before to prevent people in the country share a photo and video of the repression happened in the country to people outside the country. Rumors and disinformation has been spread around the country and according to (Delaney) 2011, online social tools helped activists counter those who were trying to terrorize the population, helping to calm the entire situation down — they spread the message that people were helping to keep things in control. On the other hand, citizen journalism also helps countries to keep control of the problem that is going on under control. Citizen journalism is everyone owns a smartphone, it has become easier than ever to share events with the world as they unfold right in front of your eyes (Turnbull 2010). Social media and citizen journalism has help a lot on Tunisia revolution.

Reference List 


Coz, C.L 2011, Social Media, Facebook Help People Stand Up in Tunisia, Egypt, viewed 11th June 2012, 
< http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/02/social-media-facebook-help-people-stand-up-in-tunisia-egypt034.html >


Delany, C 2011, How Social Media Accelerated Tunisia’s Revolution: An Inside View, viewed 11th June 2012.
< http://www.epolitics.com/2011/02/10/how-social-media-accelerated-tunisias-revolution-an-inside-view/ >


Turnbull, T 2010, Citizen Journalism And Social Media Are Driving the Information Revolution, 11th June 2012, 
< http://www.socialconnectblueprint.com/citizen-journalism-and-social-media-are-driving-the-information-revolution/# >