Abstract
The Arab Spring is a popular term used to describe the revolutionary movement of demonstrations and protests, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on December 18, 2010 in Tunisia and spread in the whole Arab countries. Tunisia and Egypt became the center of this revolution, and then it moved to include Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Sudan, Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Western Sahara and Palestine. Yemeni youth’s revolution movement began to change the system through mobilization of people and social action. This paper focuses on the importance of Facebook in the revolution and how the Yemeni youth used Facebook to attract more supporters and keep the spirit up. The present paper reports the impact of Facebook in nurturing political revolution in Yemen analyzing the data achieved by survey method.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 5, Issue-1: 5-9
Highlights
The word media once referred only to print media, photography, advertising, cinema, radio and television, and folk media
The Arab Spring The Arab Spring is a popular term used to describe a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on December 18, 2010 in Tunisia and spread to the completely Arab peninsula
The study found that majority of the Arab spring activists (78.3%) were using the Facebook for more than 3 years (Table 1)
Summary
The word media once referred only to print media, photography, advertising, cinema, radio and television, and folk media. Odine (2013) in the study entitled “Role of Social Media in the Empowerment of Arab Women” revealed that utilization of Steinert-Threlkeld et al (2015) contented that was the major factor in correlating large-scale decentralized protests that have opened new horizons for balance of power between the citizens and the state They suggested that even weak ties can facilitate mobilization by divulging individuals to information about participation from outside of their local, strong-tie social network, allowing those who are on the periphery of the protest. Tim Markham (2014) in his study pointed out that generative, self-organizing properties of protest cultures, that are mobilized with the aid of social media try to evade both authoritarian political structures and academic discourse, leading to new political subjectivities or ‘imaginaries’ This power in protest cultures and social media enables affective political projection, but overlooks politics in its institutional and formal forms. Kirat (2013) opined that new media can mobilize crowds and masses to rally and protest i.e. a social perspective to movements; they fail to implement democracy.Social media is unremittingly changing the creativity, social convergence and community relationship patterns of the people leading to new political and socioeconomic prospects of these countries
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