1. Tools of Change: How Social Media Helped Spark theArab Spring Jillian C. York

2. 3. 4. 5. anti-corruption 6. anti-censorship 7. #sidibouzid 8. The Domino Effect 9. Suppression 10. 11. Mahalla Photo by Nasser Nouri 12. Anti-torture 13. 14. We Are All Khaled Said 15. Egypt: A Facebook Revolution? 16. Can Social Media Facilitate Revolution? 17.

No.

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18. Silencing Speech 19. The Al Jazeera Effect 20. Internet v. Mobile 21. Clicktivism vs. Activism? 22.

The media blackout, disinformation and censorship continue to show their limitations. We have never been so well informed about what is happening...The border between the real and virtual worlds has never been so tight.

• • • • -Selim, 2011
      • (@Selim_)

23. The Distributed Truth Engine http://bit.ly/fnqEwM 24.

social media has created a sort of alternate space for reviving a dormant public consciousness into a sentient, dynamic social discourse

• • • • -Hani Morsi, 2011
      • (@hanimorsi)

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They thought that they might prevent people from communicating and arranging for further demonstrations. But the truth is that such information blackout made me...eager to participate in the "Friday of Anger"

• • • -Tarek Amr, 2011
    • (@gr33ndata)

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Our strength will always stem from the fact that well have one foot in the cyberspace, and, more importantly, the other foot will be on the ground.

• • -Hossam El-Hamalawy, 2008
  • • • (@3arabawy)

29. Thank you!

Jillian C. York [email_address] @jilliancyork http://jilliancyork.com