By Wissam S. Yafi (auth.)
Wissam S. Yafi argues that there are 4 dynamics resulting in inevitable swap within the Arab zone: geopolitical, geoeconomic, geosocial, and technological. Yafi involves the belief that no process may be capable of help the dynamics in position aside from democracy.
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Arab demonstrators elsewhere in the region soon plastered images of Gadhafi’s bloodied corpse as a warning to their own autocrats. Internet access is now all over the region. In some countries, such as Egypt, the state, for a while, even provided free dial-up to the population at large. As a result, social media, itself a component of the Internet, has seen a surge in usage all over the Arab world. Without any other avenues to express and vent their frustrations, tools such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter quickly became more preponderant among the young.
Instead, he would simply have gone home, accessed the harmful material from his home computer and printed it for distribution on his $100 inkjet printer. Better yet, he could have e-mailed it from his Yahoo or Hotmail account to an e-mail list of thousands of people inside or outside of the country with the odds of being caught close to naught. After all, if Al-Qaeda’s Bin Laden operating out of caves somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan was able to maintain constant touch with his base through the Internet, without being caught by American intelligence services throwing billions of dollars at it for more than a decade, one would tend to think that censorship as the world used to know it once upon a time is a long-gone victim of technological progress.
What has been even more fascinating is the bidirectional interaction with the viewers. Al-Jazeera became a leader with programs such as Al-Ittijah Al-Mo’akis (The Opposing Direction) and Bila Hodoud (Beyond Borders), talk shows that allow people to call in. This, coupled with the aforementioned regionalization, has managed to lift restrictions on viewers’ opinions. In multiple shows during 2010, the topic being discussed was the delicate succession of Hosni Mubarak. Many viewers calling from all over the Arab world criticized the fact that his son, Gamal, was even being considered to follow in his father’s footsteps.