Tuesday
Mar012011
The Real Net Effect: Social Media 1st-Hand from Tunisia to Egypt to.... (Beaumont)
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 8:43 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Journalism and Media, Middle East and Iran
>"Social media was absolutely crucial [in Tunisia]. Three months before Mohammed Bouazizi burned himself in Sidi Bouzid we had a similar case in Monastir. But no one knew about it because it was not filmed. What made a difference this time is that the images of Bouazizi were put on Facebook and everybody saw it."