by Marie Benilde
" What role did New Media in the fall of autocratic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt ? Should we pay to Facebook, and social networks in general, the ability to mobilize crowds and generate opposition movements? Lessons politico-media revolts and revolutions "in line".
regime of Hosni Mubarak's act the most draconian in the world in terms of access to the Internet, the daily Liberation 28 January. Neither Burma in 2007, neither China in 2008, neither Iran in 2009 would have gone as far as Egypt faced the challenge on the web. Only the country's despot rais completely cut off access to the network for nine tenths of the 23 million Internet Egyptian with occasional or regular access to the Web - including five million subscribers to the network Facebook. This break could not prevent the fall of Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian revolution, like that which preceded it in Tunisia, shows both the power of new media, the difficulty of their opposing conventional forces control and repression, and their articulation, too often undervalued, with traditional media such as television or newspapers. "(...)
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