{"id":66,"date":"2012-02-10T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mpoirier\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-02-10T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:06:49","slug":"66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mpoirier\/2012\/02\/10\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

When technology truly shines, people around the world tend to notice. With new information sharing sites and access to blogs, people of the world have taken to the World Wide Web in order to combat tyranny and fight for individual freedom. Gilad Lotan<\/a>, Erhardt Graeff<\/a>, Mike Ananny<\/a>, Devin Gaffney<\/a>, Ian Pearce and Danah Boyd<\/a> all combined their resources and expertise to write \u201cThe Revolutions were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions<\/a>\u201d in which they point out that technology not only helped the revolution happen in the first place, but allowed people to sustain their fight and sustain a constant flow of information to the world. Today, we are faced with many over bearing and controlling governments, who make it their duty to block the flow of information and crush any revolution. It is no longer that easy, now mainstream media has taken a back seat to amateur reporting, and even with national media shutdown or controlled; we the people still have a way to report our struggles and get the world to notice and help.<\/p>\n

I agree that Twitter<\/a> and other information sites helped sustain the revolution, just as it has helped the Occupy movement. When traditional news media refused to cover the issue and tried to hush hush<\/em> it, the people took to Twitter and other blog sites to tell the world that the US of Free was becoming a police state who caters to the ultra rich. One recent problem with Twitter is the fact that they recently took in a huge sum of money from the Saudi family, which is turn has influenced Twitter and now they are going to sensor tweets from certain countries. Is it the begging of the end? Only time can tell.<\/p>\n

Here is a Washington Post article, “Five Myths about the Arab Spring<\/a>” that takes the opposite stance and claims that the revolution had nothing to do with social media along with other myths. I don\u2019t agree with it all, but it is worth a read and gives another important perspective.<\/p>\n

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