Title: Facebook in Egypt: April 6 and the Perception of a New Political Sphere
Abstract: Suppression of political opposition in Egypt is reinforced through mainstream media control and a 29-year-old state of emergency, which allows for arbitrary and indefinite detention, as well as prohibiting public gatherings of more than five people. Since the turn of the millennium, however, Facebook has been producing important arenas for political information and organization (Khaled 2009).KeywordsPolitical SpherePolitical OppositionSocial Network StructurePolitical InformationConstitutional ReformThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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