Social media, cell phone video fuel Arab protests

Youth in the Middle East lately is protesting a video fuel Arab to social media, cellphone, and satellite TV. The video clip of protesting from youth, represented an insecure footage of a peaceful from people especially young man  

And image terrible slaughter which has been uploaded on facebook, youtube, twitter and so on. In Bahrain and Libya, graphic image and rare video of insensitive clearout by the protection forces on crowds of protesters achieved international disapproval for their government and further fuelled accepted anger in the streets (Daily News 2011). Moreover, the coverage to which social media contributed to the overthrowing of the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia and also protests of differing size and power  in Algeri, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Yemen is just a matter of debate or argument. Yet, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi has taken the threats facade by the Internet seriously enough, apparently, when they took the unusual step of endeavoring to cut their own people off the (Web Daily News 2011). According to Annabelle Sreberny (2010), saying that there is an important link between face-to-face politics and more technological-mediated communication. There are different strusture of repressive states, different histories of political action and differentiated approach to new forms of communication. Small media do offer immediacy and comprehensively like few channels before yet some new forms such as big media it tends to play significant roles in public opinion formation, different part of the world to each other (Annabelle 2010).

Reference List

Daily News 2011, “Social media, cell phone video fuel Arab protest”, online, viewed on 10 June 2011,

< http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=social-media-cell-phone-video-fuel-arab-protests-2011-02-22>

Small Media Initiative 2010, “Understanding Small media”, online, viewed on 10 June 2011,

< http://www.smallmediainitiative.com/abstracts/>