SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Arab Spring, Countermovement, Collective Action
3 Oct 2012
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Stresses interactions between social movement actors and the state. Favourable conditions will lead to social movements, protests. Video: how facebook changed the world: arab spring tunisia. Used cell phone filming + facebook to show the footage of what was happening the media was not covering this movement (media is censored and controlled by the corrupt government) Postings on facebook went viral and word spread to surrounding countries and cities where similar events started occurring. Used twitter to get around police raided streets to get to the protesting. Police force used firearms and brutality, killing unarmed protestors. Prime minister fled and the revolution was won, changing to democracy and human rights enforced. Revolution then spread to the neighboring country of egypt (although this would be a harder country to change) The egyptian leader is allied with western officials and presidents, allowing him to get away with his crime and rigged elections.
