January 14, 2011 at 11:18 noon, one of hundreds of millions of post post on Facebook every day reading "Message to the People of Egypt: Let's make the 25th of January next as the Torch Change in Egypt".
The message above, written in Arabic, considered as the initial trigger social movements that led to the Egyptian revolution and the collapse of the president who had ruled for 30 years, Hosni Mubarak.
Facebook is the second most popular site in Egypt, with 5 million users. At that time the majority of the population, especially the middle class, already uncomfortable with government corruption, abuse of power, inequality of economic opportunity and economic convergence among the elite.
Tagar # Jan25, starting January 15, was so popular and be a marker for the demonstration of prolonged and concentrated in Tahrir Square.
Revolution Facebook, Twitter Revolution. Social, economic, and political culture are key drivers of this revolution, where the role of social networks, as the media, the 'viral effect' which has, managed to overthrow the Mubarak regime. Shocked the world. The revolution continues into other Arab countries. Middle East turmoil.
Two days after the message is sent, the Egyptian government that strictly controls the conventional mass media, start taking action. Internet and mobile services were closed using technology purchased from Narus, a company from the United States. People looking for alternative connections. Modem dial-up and re-bloom use a proxy server.
Obama and his online campaign
According to Webster's Online Dictionary, social movements is one type of group activity. Informal group consisting of individuals and or organizations with a focus on a particular political or social issues, make changes to a particular social or political interests of society.
Social movement has been started since hundreds of years ago. The difference is that if once more use of mass media, both print and electronic, such as newspapers, radio and television, as well as simple general media (pamphlets, flyers) now the Internet media, especially social networks, become a popular platform.
His ability to reach more audience, real time, across boundaries of space and time, the domino effect that fierce and high interactivity realize various circles.
Protests against elections in Iran, two years ago, known as the Revolt Twitter, shows how social networks make mobilization and mass demonstrations more easily occur. Iranian population with vocal aspirations of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election through Twitter and Facebook.
Discourse of the Internet's role in mobilizing the masses began to arise from the use of such media are intense in the presidential election campaign conducted by Barack Obama and his team three years ago.
The program is a program of the campaign's first political campaign that maximize the use of social networking and headed by David Plouffe as campaign manager and Thomas Gensemer, a key figure Obama's Internet strategy.
Systemic use of the Internet, instant messaging and other electronic communications media aims to create a network of volunteers and coordinators at the grassroots level are fully committed and militant. The result? 2 million volunteers and coordinators, 200,000 event, 35,000 groups, 400,000 blogs.
Fund campaign raised $ 30 million from 70,000 individual donors. Internet's role limited to coordination and collaboration media, while involving and empowering volunteers and coordinators in their campaign events and programs.
Slacktivism
There is an extreme term 'slacktivism', introduced by renowned social networking expert, Evgeny Morozov. This term suggests that social or political change could occur simply by doing online activities only. For example, simply join one group on Facebook.
This type of activism is suitable for 'slacker generation' who have the notion that mobilization in cyberspace can contribute as much as compared with physical activism, where they will also avoid the risk of injury, death, kidnapped, brutal mass up to the torture that is very possible on mass action, especially for political demonstrations.
Taking the example of revolution in Egypt, demonstrators photo album or wall utilizing Facebook and Twitter to report and show pictures of the action happens. People who protest, clashed with police, which caused tension, the atmosphere of laughter and sorrow. While tagar # Jan25, came one day after Facebook message appears, by a 21-year-old woman's account, @ alya1989262.
Twitter has become the eyes, ears and voice of what actually happened and the public reaction to it. The demonstrators capitalize smart phones as if vying to convey the events that they experienced throughout the world. Its main purpose is to gain support from other Egyptians and support is realized by a similar action.
Before the Egyptian revolution occurred, early last year, in January last, the regime of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who has ruled for 23 years, also fell. The fall of the tyranny in Tunisia which begins with a demonstration about a month old, also preceded by resistance through Facebook and Twitter.
The mass media 'mainstream', newspapers, radio and television as well as other social networks like YouTube are blocked as well as information on the Internet activities closely watched.
Ali, a pseudonym of a militant activist, said in an interview said he spent 18 hours of time every day at the computer to use Facebook.
He led the SBZ News, a team with 15 activists cyberspace, which gathers information, photos and video from various sources in Tunisia and spread it on Facebook and Twitter.
All the features present in both social networking is being used by activists to share information, designing and menyerbaluaskan action agenda and to coordinate demonstrations.
After the revolution in Tunisia infectious in Egypt, the Chinese government shut down all the information about the upheaval in the land of the Nile River so as not to trigger the pro-democracy activists in China doing the same.
Domestically, the Movement Million Facebookers in garnering support against Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto in October two years ago for allegedly abusing a disabled authority provides enough public pressure to the authorities and have an important role so that both are free from the accusation of receiving bribes.
There are still some movement of other local Facebook users, ranging from 1 million facebookers Movement Hendri Mulyadi capacity as a National Hero, Movement 1 million Facebookers Movement rejected the UN to Reject a billion Facebooker hijab and veil ban.
Because brave Social Networking
From some of the events above, it can be concluded that the existing social networking allows users to become 'more courageous' in their opinions and voice their aspirations, especially if they are concerned that despite the aspirations and opinions are opinions of individual and collective behavior.
Collaboration between conventional mass media with social networking, and social networking itself, if the conventional mass media have lost confidence in public and closely monitored / blocked, has proven to be a powerful medium for digital activism (cyberactivism), in addition to email and web sites.
Industrial Revolution, French Revolution up to the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary did happen before social networking was found. Technology alone will not trigger a revolution. The number of Internet users in the world had reached 2.5 billion users, from a total of 6.5 billion inhabitants of Earth in which almost 1 billion of which has a social networking account.
Internet user growth is so rapid that is 3 digits (nearly 500 percent) in the last 10 years, mainly in Africa and the Middle East region with a stunning growth rate, 4 digits. Currently 12 percent (120 million) people in Africa and 30 percent (70 million) people in the Middle East already have Internet access.
These statistics are not directly improve the bargaining position of social networks in voicing opinions and aspirations of users of social change, social movements and mobilize 'people power'.
Social ties and a strong relationship between the oppressed is the main factor. And social networks facilitate social bonds and relationships that exist in the real world and virtual world to be strong or even stronger.
The message above, written in Arabic, considered as the initial trigger social movements that led to the Egyptian revolution and the collapse of the president who had ruled for 30 years, Hosni Mubarak.
Facebook is the second most popular site in Egypt, with 5 million users. At that time the majority of the population, especially the middle class, already uncomfortable with government corruption, abuse of power, inequality of economic opportunity and economic convergence among the elite.
Tagar # Jan25, starting January 15, was so popular and be a marker for the demonstration of prolonged and concentrated in Tahrir Square.
Revolution Facebook, Twitter Revolution. Social, economic, and political culture are key drivers of this revolution, where the role of social networks, as the media, the 'viral effect' which has, managed to overthrow the Mubarak regime. Shocked the world. The revolution continues into other Arab countries. Middle East turmoil.
Two days after the message is sent, the Egyptian government that strictly controls the conventional mass media, start taking action. Internet and mobile services were closed using technology purchased from Narus, a company from the United States. People looking for alternative connections. Modem dial-up and re-bloom use a proxy server.
Obama and his online campaign
According to Webster's Online Dictionary, social movements is one type of group activity. Informal group consisting of individuals and or organizations with a focus on a particular political or social issues, make changes to a particular social or political interests of society.
Social movement has been started since hundreds of years ago. The difference is that if once more use of mass media, both print and electronic, such as newspapers, radio and television, as well as simple general media (pamphlets, flyers) now the Internet media, especially social networks, become a popular platform.
His ability to reach more audience, real time, across boundaries of space and time, the domino effect that fierce and high interactivity realize various circles.
Protests against elections in Iran, two years ago, known as the Revolt Twitter, shows how social networks make mobilization and mass demonstrations more easily occur. Iranian population with vocal aspirations of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election through Twitter and Facebook.
Discourse of the Internet's role in mobilizing the masses began to arise from the use of such media are intense in the presidential election campaign conducted by Barack Obama and his team three years ago.
The program is a program of the campaign's first political campaign that maximize the use of social networking and headed by David Plouffe as campaign manager and Thomas Gensemer, a key figure Obama's Internet strategy.
Systemic use of the Internet, instant messaging and other electronic communications media aims to create a network of volunteers and coordinators at the grassroots level are fully committed and militant. The result? 2 million volunteers and coordinators, 200,000 event, 35,000 groups, 400,000 blogs.
Fund campaign raised $ 30 million from 70,000 individual donors. Internet's role limited to coordination and collaboration media, while involving and empowering volunteers and coordinators in their campaign events and programs.
Slacktivism
There is an extreme term 'slacktivism', introduced by renowned social networking expert, Evgeny Morozov. This term suggests that social or political change could occur simply by doing online activities only. For example, simply join one group on Facebook.
This type of activism is suitable for 'slacker generation' who have the notion that mobilization in cyberspace can contribute as much as compared with physical activism, where they will also avoid the risk of injury, death, kidnapped, brutal mass up to the torture that is very possible on mass action, especially for political demonstrations.
Taking the example of revolution in Egypt, demonstrators photo album or wall utilizing Facebook and Twitter to report and show pictures of the action happens. People who protest, clashed with police, which caused tension, the atmosphere of laughter and sorrow. While tagar # Jan25, came one day after Facebook message appears, by a 21-year-old woman's account, @ alya1989262.
Twitter has become the eyes, ears and voice of what actually happened and the public reaction to it. The demonstrators capitalize smart phones as if vying to convey the events that they experienced throughout the world. Its main purpose is to gain support from other Egyptians and support is realized by a similar action.
Before the Egyptian revolution occurred, early last year, in January last, the regime of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who has ruled for 23 years, also fell. The fall of the tyranny in Tunisia which begins with a demonstration about a month old, also preceded by resistance through Facebook and Twitter.
The mass media 'mainstream', newspapers, radio and television as well as other social networks like YouTube are blocked as well as information on the Internet activities closely watched.
Ali, a pseudonym of a militant activist, said in an interview said he spent 18 hours of time every day at the computer to use Facebook.
He led the SBZ News, a team with 15 activists cyberspace, which gathers information, photos and video from various sources in Tunisia and spread it on Facebook and Twitter.
All the features present in both social networking is being used by activists to share information, designing and menyerbaluaskan action agenda and to coordinate demonstrations.
After the revolution in Tunisia infectious in Egypt, the Chinese government shut down all the information about the upheaval in the land of the Nile River so as not to trigger the pro-democracy activists in China doing the same.
Domestically, the Movement Million Facebookers in garnering support against Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto in October two years ago for allegedly abusing a disabled authority provides enough public pressure to the authorities and have an important role so that both are free from the accusation of receiving bribes.
There are still some movement of other local Facebook users, ranging from 1 million facebookers Movement Hendri Mulyadi capacity as a National Hero, Movement 1 million Facebookers Movement rejected the UN to Reject a billion Facebooker hijab and veil ban.
Because brave Social Networking
From some of the events above, it can be concluded that the existing social networking allows users to become 'more courageous' in their opinions and voice their aspirations, especially if they are concerned that despite the aspirations and opinions are opinions of individual and collective behavior.
Collaboration between conventional mass media with social networking, and social networking itself, if the conventional mass media have lost confidence in public and closely monitored / blocked, has proven to be a powerful medium for digital activism (cyberactivism), in addition to email and web sites.
Industrial Revolution, French Revolution up to the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary did happen before social networking was found. Technology alone will not trigger a revolution. The number of Internet users in the world had reached 2.5 billion users, from a total of 6.5 billion inhabitants of Earth in which almost 1 billion of which has a social networking account.
Internet user growth is so rapid that is 3 digits (nearly 500 percent) in the last 10 years, mainly in Africa and the Middle East region with a stunning growth rate, 4 digits. Currently 12 percent (120 million) people in Africa and 30 percent (70 million) people in the Middle East already have Internet access.
These statistics are not directly improve the bargaining position of social networks in voicing opinions and aspirations of users of social change, social movements and mobilize 'people power'.
Social ties and a strong relationship between the oppressed is the main factor. And social networks facilitate social bonds and relationships that exist in the real world and virtual world to be strong or even stronger.
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