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Arab Springs
Arab Springs
Spring 2011
Facebook and Twitter
Used in mobilization, empowerment and shaping opinions.
Organize protest, awareness
Facebook users doubled during this time. -
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street
September 2011
450,000 Facebook users.
Snapchat
Protester used social media because they are autonomous from corporate and government power. -
Free Libya
Free Libya
February 15, 2011
Facebook
Pictures, news information discussion, on going events, videos
One page had 21,500 “likes”
Twitter
Real time evens
YouTube
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Ukrainian Revolution
Ukrainian Revolution
2014
Twitter
Tweets by journalist and activist were the mechanism that brought hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian into the streets.
37 % increase in social media accounts. -
Bring Back Our Girls
Bringbackourgirls2014 Abduction of school girls by Boko-Haram. Hashtag became worldwide increased the knowledge of what was going on in Nigeria. This social media created more global traffic on social media than with in the country.
