The Arab Spring and the Social Media

I think that technology played a positive role to the rise of the Arab Spring. In fact, technology played a tremendously huge part on the overall impacts of the Arab Spring. For instance, the CIA was able to envisage the episodes that happened in Egypt due to the massive amount of movements on social media platform such as Twitter and Facebook. The role of the social network and technology make possible the communication between the demonstrators. For this reason, the governments in Egypt shut down the Internet during the last remonstration against Mubarak, in order to diminish the value of communication between demonstrator groups.

I think social media's role during the Arab spring was positive for the government because not only did social media a significant role for anti-government arrange and demonstrators but it was also utilized by governments to avoid their hold on their civilian. Many governments were able to control protestors’ activities and block certain websites to prevent civil unrest.

I think the governments of these countries played an efficacious role by maneuvering their civilians in order to ensure stability and harmony. The governments block certain websites to make sure that the country is prosperous and in peace. The social media and the technology were the fundamental aspects during the revolution.

I think social media should be scrutinized closely by governments in order to have a stronger grip on their citizens so violent uprisings cannot occur. In fact, social media helped the government in a lot of different ways because for instance they can keep track of what they are doing so that they can prevent incoming chaos and turmoil.

In general, the main root causes of the Arab Spring was the revolution that took place in Tunisia of Mohamad Bouazizi on 18 December 2010 of corruption and the horrific treatment has shaken tyrannical leaders across the Arab world in Libya, Egypt, Bahrain, and Tunisia. The government treated Mohamad Bouazizi heinously and ruthlessly which let him to blaze him on fire. I civilians in the Arab Spring were bewildered by this atrocious events and they organized a huge uprising against the government.

                       

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/2012919115344299848.html

http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/arab-spring-bad-for-regions-economies-says-un-report