Power, politics and the social media movement
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Libya, a very modern kind of revolution has swept the Middle East; started by young people and powered by them, planned and engineered online. Using video and stills shot by thousands of people on mobile phone cameras.
How Facebook Changed The World - The Arab Spring: Episode 2 reveals how social and political change is being driven by the blogging, Facebooking, tweeting generation of the 21st century, wrong footing the gerontocracy in a matter of months if not weeks through the viral power of the internet.
How Facebook Changed The World - The Arab Spring: Episode 2 offers the inside story on how these movements snowballed from the streets upwards.
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