[FoME] Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War / New Media and Conflict after the Arab Spring / ...

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Blogs & Bullets III: Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War 
January 2014 | Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, and Sean Aday  

Much of what the outside world thinks it knows about Syria has come from videos, analysis, and commentary circulated through social media. In this report, leading social media researchers assess the sources of this content, its credibility, and how it travels. Their examination of English-language and Arabic-language Twitter feeds on Syria reveal insular networks with vastly different content, calling into question Western reliance on English-only sources of information on the conflict. 

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 Blogs & Bullets II: New Media and Conflict after the Arab Spring
July 2012 | Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, and Deen Freelon 

In this report, the authors analyze the role of social media in the Arab Spring protests of 2011-12 using a unique dataset from bit.ly, the URL shortener commonly associated with Twitter and used by other digital media such as Facebook. With these data, the authors are able to test empirically the claims of "cyberoptimists" and "cyberskeptics" about the role of new media in bringing down autocratic regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya and in spurring protests in other parts of the Arab World, such as Bahrain. 

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 Blogs & Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics
September 2010 | Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly, and Ethan Zuckerman

In this report, a team of experts from The George Washington University, in cooperation with scholars from Harvard University and Morningside Analytics, critically assesses both the "cyberutopian" and "cyberskeptic" perspectives on the impact of new media on political movements. The authors propose a more complex approach that looks at the role of new media in contentious politics from five interlocking levels of analysis: individual transformation, intergroup relations, collective action, regime policies, and external attention. 

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