… whether we should understand social media as fundamentally a technology … of either conclusion. The Arab Spring of the early 2010s … by digital dissent on social media. However, media coverage … galvanized resistance in the Arab Spring (Howard and Hussain 2011 …

… and analysing public information (news, social media, satellite imagery, official documents, maritime … a Latin version of the Arab Spring. This would justify direct military …

… and the impact of social media was so detrimental, particularly … Frances Haugen supports the social media ban.Credit: Eamon GallagherThe … during the heady post-Arab Spring years. “I joined Twitter … have fled from mainstream social media sites to less prominent …

… stayed quiet. From driving the Arab Spring back in 2011-12, and … the streets in September after social media posts by children of senior … and Role of Social Media Using the power of social media, Gen Z protests …

… ever-growing number of social media spaces: Facebook, Bluesky, … Wall Street and the Arab Spring around 2011, this was … experience onto the social media dynamics that were present … monetization, and essentially allocating social media’s resources differently. …

… designated an age-restricted social media platform but said it … 2014, intoxicated by its Arab Spring promise to let ordinary people … exactly the same way social media companies did 20 years … will grow up without expecting social media before 16, “around the …

… that social media would inevitably liberate the subjects of autocracies; then the Arab Spring … Tiananmen and constantly exposed on social media to what one friend calls …

… fought on the battlefield of social media, where competing factions trade fake … what's happening on social media," said Amar Salah Omar … grassroots mobilisation inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings in neighbouring countries. The …

… -old zawiyas while engaging through social media, becoming both aesthetic expression and … political Islamic movements after the Arab Spring uprisings made young people question …

… achieved, in large part, through social media. These digitally driven movements expose … protest.” The 2010–2011 Arab Spring marked social media’s rise as a global … researcher Deen Freelon (2016) observed, social media facilitated rather than caused change …