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How social media became a tool for Arab Spring?

 The „Arab Spring‟ is a term used to define pro-democracy protests and rebellious actions the public took against their government. It started back in 2010 in Tunisia (Africa), when one street vendor named Sidi Bouazizi, set himself on fire when an official confiscated his vegetable cart and went on to humiliate him in public. The poor vendor‟s „mistake‟ was that he refused to pay bribes to the police. He set himself on fire and the whole country felt the jitters of pain, from which emerged a revolution that the Bouazizi incident Media and Psychology 40 An Introduction to Psychology and Media 40 sparked. This was labelled Jasmine revolution. The public was already aware of the rampant corruption, nepotism, election manipulation, and oppression. However, it seems, in retrospect, people were just waiting for an event that would surpass their limit of tolerance. The selfimmolation of Bouazizi stirred the public, who then was in an armed revolution against their oppressors. The death of the vendor took place on 17th December, 2010, and on 14th January, 2011, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali (the then President of Tunisia against whose oppressive regimes people were protesting) fled the country in fear. Aden (Yemen) Protestors in 2011 in support of Mohamed Bouazizi Source:

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Now, the important question: How did social media help stir the protests? It was the pictures and videos of Bouazizi‟s incident through social media that ignited fire in the hearts of all individuals who then came to the streets to fight for the ongoing oppression. The government tried to hinder the spreading of the same, however, it eventually reached media and showed it to the people who did not have access to the internet. International journalists were reached through social media. Inspired by Tunisia, similar protests started in other countries including Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Libya. In Egypt too, the revolution, which was organized mainly through the social media, was successful in removing the then President Hosni Mubarak.

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