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The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) published a
report on Social Media in the Arab world:<br>
<a href="http://shar.es/p8LOz">http://shar.es/p8LOz</a><br>
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!important; float: none; ">CIMA is pleased to release a new
report,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong
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href="http://issuu.com/cima-publications/docs/digital-media-mena-one-year-after-revolutions"
style="color: rgb(67, 135, 184); text-decoration: none;
outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color:
initial; ">Digital Media in the Arab World One Year After the
Revolutions</a></strong><span style="color: rgb(52, 52, 52);
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline
!important; float: none; ">, by Jeffrey Ghannam, a lawyer and
writer in Washington, DC. The Arab region is experiencing a
profound media shift. The year following the start of the Arab
revolutions–in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and violent uprisings in
Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain–was followed by continued repression
and threats to the exercise of free expression online and
offline. But the year also saw great strides in the numbers of
Arabs across the region turning to social media platforms and
the ascendancy of online engagement. This report describes and
analyzes the enabling of tens of millions of individuals–as well
as established news outlets–to attract wide global followings
with Facebook and Twitter updates and YouTube videos about
rapidly changing events. The widely diverse and pluralistic
online communities in the Arab world are creating and sharing
content, casting into question the future of the many
state-owned or self-censored media that provide less in the way
of engagement that Arab audiences have come to expect.</span></blockquote>
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