Open AccessWHO CONTROLS THE ARAB PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE ERA OF NEW MEDIA, THE NEW REVOLUTIONISTS OR THE DEEP STATE?
Author(s) -
Nawaf Abdelhay Altamimi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of content, community and communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2456-9011
pISSN - 2395-7514
DOI - 10.31620/jccc.12.20/29
Subject(s) - social media , state (computer science) , public sphere , civil society , political science , value (mathematics) , public relations , digital era , media studies , new media , the internet , sociology , law , world wide web , computer science , politics , algorithm , machine learning
Recent events in Arab countries, particularly in Tunisia, Egypt have shown that new modes of communications such as Mobile phones and social networking sites have facilitated civil society's organization by allowing a timely exchange of opinions and ideas. Youth protesters in uprising societies have recognised the value of Mechanisms in which the public can meet and discuss and share ideas openly, recognise problems and suggest solutions (Caplan and Boyd, 2016). Those Young demonstrators have taken to social media such as Facebook and Twitter online to organize social prodemocracy movements and start the revolution, demonstrating how the Web-based platforms have become a crucial alternative media instrument for advocacy in today's Digital Age. (Kenix, 2009).