Middle Eastern Social Movements

In the recent Middle East social movement, Internet-based communication has greatly contributed to the possibility of mass mobilization and the success of sports. Media technology in the 21st century (Facebook, Twitter, blog, YouTube, etc.) functions as a semi-public sector, where you share the opposite attitude, announce the place of political protest, and coordinate mobilization I will. Thus, Internet-based communication plays a dual role and can serve as an alternative to personal expression, but it also serves as a mobilization tool for broadcasting dissidential demos, plans and organizations can do.

Since the birth of "Indymedia" and "World Social Forum" since the innovation of Zapatistas' revolution over the past 30 years and the summit protest of 1999, the global sports campaign has been established through decades of network construction It has been done. so. It shows the great ability to build an alliance between movement and the continent, and the basic premise of challenging neo-liberalism. And it will continue to form through the Middle East war against the Bush administration.

A typical application of social media to influence the Arab Spring, perhaps social movements, is a powerful and corresponding exercise that overturns the established authoritarian regime in North Africa and the Middle East. Campaign large and organic organization protest actions are mainly formed on online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and nine out of the ten Tunisians organized protest actions and face-to-face with Facebook Was used. However, the precise role of social media and the degree of its specific impact are unknown. In the first country that began protesting in Tunisia, there were only 2,000 Twitter accounts registered before the revolution, of which only 200 active Twitter accounts were active. In Iran, the most effective way to organize opponents is by traditional campaign rather than online platform.

Egypt and Iran were one of the first Middle Eastern countries to experience the uprising of the Islamic fundamentalism movement. Egypt is the first, then temporary effect, attacking the roads of Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. It occurred between the 1970s and the 1980s, when we thought that the Islamic principle is changing at all, and it was also when Westernization had too much influence on its civil society. The formation of the fundamentalist group that had been done before this has the same goal; rejecting the West and supporting Muslim