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Do new prosecution strategies reduce crime and incarceration rates?
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What’s new in digital media research: Apps, ads and open-source journalism
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The Arab Spring and the Internet: Research roundup
Roundup of recent studies that bring a scholarly, data-driven lens to questions around the Arab Spring.
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Claims about the Internet’s impact on the political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa abound in popular discourse and news reports. As is well known, there is a fierce and unresolved debate about what role social and digital media played in catalyzing and sustaining the events of the “Arab Spring,” or uprising. Many of the questions will, of course, only be sufficiently answered as the national political consequences become fully apparent in various countries. And two years after the January 25th uprising in Tahrir Square, much still hangs in the balance.
A 2012 report from the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, “Social Networking Popular Across Globe: Arab Publics Most Likely to Express Political Views Online,” notes that the region currently has some distinctive online dynamics: ““In Egypt and Tunisia, two nations at the heart of the Arab Spring, more than six-in-ten social networkers share their views about politics online. In contrast, across 20 of the nations surveyed, a median of only 34% post their political opinions. Similarly, in Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, more than seven-in-ten share views on community issues, compared with a cross-national median of just 46%.”
For further comparative perspective on Asia and Africa, see a 2012 study from Ohio State University and the University of Washington published in the Journal of Communication, “Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy.”
For those wanting to understand how the Western press interacted with and amplified certain dynamics, this paper offers interesting perspective: “Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” (PDF).
– See more at: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/international/global-tech/research-arab-spring-internet-key-studies#sthash.RKcEJ2ro.dpuf
Claims about the Internet’s impact on the political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa abound in popular discourse and news reports. As is well known, there is a fierce and unresolved debate about what role social and digital media played in catalyzing and sustaining the events of the “Arab Spring,” or uprising. Many of the questions will, of course, only be sufficiently answered as the national political consequences become fully apparent in various countries. And two years after the January 25th uprising in Tahrir Square, much still hangs in the balance.
A 2012 report from the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, “Social Networking Popular Across Globe: Arab Publics Most Likely to Express Political Views Online,” notes that the region currently has some distinctive online dynamics: ““In Egypt and Tunisia, two nations at the heart of the Arab Spring, more than six-in-ten social networkers share their views about politics online. In contrast, across 20 of the nations surveyed, a median of only 34% post their political opinions. Similarly, in Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, more than seven-in-ten share views on community issues, compared with a cross-national median of just 46%.”
For further comparative perspective on Asia and Africa, see a 2012 study from Ohio State University and the University of Washington published in the Journal of Communication, “Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy.”
For those wanting to understand how the Western press interacted with and amplified certain dynamics, this paper offers interesting perspective: “Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” (PDF).
– See more at: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/international/global-tech/research-arab-spring-internet-key-studies#sthash.RKcEJ2ro.dpuf
Claims about the Internet’s impact on the political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa abound in popular discourse and news reports. As is well known, there is a fierce and unresolved debate about what role social and digital media played in catalyzing and sustaining the events of the “Arab Spring,” or uprising. Many of the questions will, of course, only be sufficiently answered as the national political consequences become fully apparent in various countries. And two years after the January 25th uprising in Tahrir Square, much still hangs in the balance.
A 2012 report from the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, “Social Networking Popular Across Globe: Arab Publics Most Likely to Express Political Views Online,” notes that the region currently has some distinctive online dynamics: ““In Egypt and Tunisia, two nations at the heart of the Arab Spring, more than six-in-ten social networkers share their views about politics online. In contrast, across 20 of the nations surveyed, a median of only 34% post their political opinions. Similarly, in Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Jordan, more than seven-in-ten share views on community issues, compared with a cross-national median of just 46%.”
For further comparative perspective on Asia and Africa, see a 2012 study from Ohio State University and the University of Washington published in the Journal of Communication, “Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes about Democracy.”
For those wanting to understand how the Western press interacted with and amplified certain dynamics, this paper offers interesting perspective: “Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” (PDF).
– See more at: http://journalistsresource.org/studies/international/global-tech/research-arab-spring-internet-key-studies#sthash.RKcEJ2ro.dpuf