Tag Archive | democracy 2.0

“A New Arab generation finds its voice” in the New York Times

The New York Times has published in its digital version a special coverage titled A New Arab generation finds its voice. It covers the points of view of 25 young Arabs, coming from different countries and with different backgrounds. From each person we get an impression of the changes happening these days in the Arab [...]

Social Media as a revolution driver

These days, Egypt is facing a revolution that may change the Arab world. Enrique Dans has pointed out that this crisis comes from a domino effect which started in Tunisia and is now heading into other dictatorships such as Algeria, Yemen and Jordan. In all of these countries, the revolution is being driven mainly through [...]

The “Cablegate”, or how Wikileaks changed international policy

Some weeks ago I was working on my statement proposal for Masters about the influence social media has on democracy. My main argument was that these new communication tools take the control of information flow from governments and give it to the people, therefore obliging the governments to be more transparent. What I didn’t expect [...]

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