Social Media and Nonviolent Social Revolution
This is the webpage for my First-Year Seminar (FYS) research project in the Spring 2011 semester at the College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John’s University. The project explores how Tunisia and Egypt used social media to launch and sustain their nonviolent social revolutions in early 2011. The content shown here will primarily consist of the finished products come May 2011, but I will also provide links to other materials used for the project as well as in-process materials over time.
Final Products
- The Confluence of Facebook and Nonviolence Final Paper (May 10th, 2011)
- Keynote Slides (presented on April 27th, 2011)
Some Documents that were Created as the Project was Worked on
- Research Project Scaffold (February 22nd, 2011)
- 10 References Bibliography (February 28th, 2011)
- 3 Sources Annotated Bibliography (March 2nd, 2011)
Some Sources Used in the Project
- From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp]
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
- The Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michael Nagler
- Arab world shaken by power of Twitter and Facebook by John Timpane
- Iran: Downside to the ‘Twitter Revolution’ by Evgeny Morozov
- Small Change, Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted by Malcolm Gladwell
- Video - Social Media Expert Clay Shirky Explores the Role of Facebook and Twitter in the Middle East - WSJ.com by Alan Murray
- TED 2011: Wael Ghonim - Voice of Egypt’s Revolution by Kim Zetter