The Arab Networked Public Sphere: Social Mobilization Post-Revolutions
Channel: The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Date: 2015-05-06

The networked public sphere has emerged as an influential medium for sharing news, disseminating information, and mediating collective action. Many have pointed to the impact of digital media on politics and public affairs, particularly in promoting and coordinating popular protests. Digitally mediated collective action continues to play a prominent role in the political landscape in Egypt and Tunisia. Nevertheless, rigorous assessments of the networked public sphere’s impact, modalities, and relationship to collective action offline are still rare.

In this session, participants present and discuss research that focuses on tracking and analyzing the socio-political topics in online content and their interplay with offline networks based on fieldwork research in Egypt and Tunisia.

Participants in this conversation include Lina Attalah, Rob Faris (moderator), Fares Mabrouk, Dalia Othman and Nagla Rizk.

For more info on this event visit: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2015/04/NetworkedPublicSphere