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...
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