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Rewolucja kaktusowa/jaśminowa znakiem przemian w krajach Maghrebu
Cactus/Jasmin Revolution: A sign of changes in Maghreb

Author(s): Anna Barska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Maghreb; Tunisia; Algeria; Marocco; Cactus/Jasmine Revolution; Internet; Arab Spring

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: The paper demonstrates the causes of the so called Cactus/Jasmine Revolution or, in other terms, the Arab Spring, which led to changes in each Magheb country: Tunisia, Algeria and Marocco. This phenomenon is attributed to be originated in the Internet, through the digital and blogosphere generation, especially Facebook and Twitter, a platform of social demands, and national policy changes. Young people through blogs, Twitter and Facebook have worked out their sphere of freedom and opposition in the net. Tunisia, though small, gave a quantitative signal for aiming at changes in many countries, not only in Maghreb.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 170-180
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish