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Will the revolution be tweeted? A conceptual framework for understanding the social media and the Arab Spring

Will the revolution be tweeted? A conceptual framework for understanding the social media and the Arab Spring

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Will the revolution be tweeted?
A conceptual framework for
understanding the social media and the
Arab Spring
Francesca Comunello
a
& Giuseppe Anzera
a
a
Department of Communication and Social Research , Sapienza
University of Rome , Italy
Published online: 05 Sep 2012.
To cite this article:
Francesca Comunello & Giuseppe Anzera (2012) Will the revolution be
tweeted? A conceptual framework for understanding the social media and the Arab Spring, Islam
and Christian–Muslim Relations, 23:4, 453-470, DOI:
10.1080/09596410.2012.712435
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Will the revolution be tweeted? A conceptual framework for
understanding the social media and the Arab Spring
Francesca Comunello* and Giuseppe Anzera
Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The goal of this article is to build a conceptual framework for understanding the role of social
media in the so-called
‘
Arab Spring
’
, considering two different disciplinary perspectives:
International Relations and Internet Studies. More specifically, it relies on literature on Middle
Eastern political systems and on social network sites. It also refers to literature that examines
the relationship between (social) media engagement and civic engagement. Building on this
foundation, the article analyses the main attempts to evaluate the
‘
impact
’
of social media on
the
‘
Arab Spring
’
from specific perspectives. Commentators have tended to adopt a
dichotomous vision of the topic, either emphasizing the
‘
revolutionary
’
role of social media or
totally minimizing its role; this article defines them as
digital evangelists
and
techno-realists
respectively. In order to prove their point of view, both sides focus on the same issues. The
study critically analyses the main issues, discussing how they have been interpreted by both
digital evangelists and techno-realists. Through a multidisciplinary framework, it proposes a
more nuanced picture of the relationship between the social media and the
‘
Arab Spring
’
.
Keywords:
Arab Spring; social media; internet studies; digital evangelists; techno-realists;
international relations
Analysing the relationship between the
‘
Arab Spring
’
and social media from a
multidisciplinary perspective
The so-called
‘
Arab Spring
’
has received wide media coverage in Western countries. Many
commentators quickly emphasized the role played by social media, defining the situation as a
‘
social media revolution
’
, mainly focusing on its organizational aspects (social media
contributions to organizing protestor activities) and information spread (social media are a
powerful tool for grassroots journalism and for independent information spread). Others
minimized the role of social media, claiming that only a minority of people in the Arab
countries have Internet access (and even fewer mobile Internet access), or even suggesting that
social media may have represented an important tool for secret services to identify and localize
activists.
Not only journalists, but also Internet scholars and International Relations scholars have
questioned the role of the social media in the
‘
Arab Spring
’
, and their opinions, some of which
will be reviewed in the following paragraphs, have gained acceptance in the public debate,
mainly through the media system. Early in the debate, understandably, there was no empirical
research to support their assumptions, and, like journalists and other commentators, they often
proposed dichotomous visions of the topic, either emphasizing the
‘
revolutionary
’
role of
social media, or minimizing it. For a better understanding of the role of social media in the
so-called
‘
Arab Spring
’
, however, a more nuanced picture is needed. Social media cannot be
interpreted as the
‘
main cause
’
of such complex processes, nor can they be seen as completely
uninfluential. In order to build a more balanced framework for discussion, we consider the
ISSN 0959-6410 print/ISSN 1469-9311 online
© 2012 University of Birmingham
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2012.712435
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Islam and Christian
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Muslim Relations
Vol. 23, No. 4, October 2012, 453
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