censorship
Transparency reporting
Organization
Open Technology Institute
Don't censor censorship: Why transparency is essential to democratic discourse
Introduction
Free Tag
Venezuela
Report Year
Themes
E-revolutions and cyber crackdowns: User-generated content and social networking in protests in MENA and beyond
Organization
Doctoral candidate, Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Introduction
The recent protests and uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have both been called “Twitter revolutions” and “Facebook revolutions” due to the widespread use of user-generated content (UGC) disseminated over social networks like Facebook and Twitter by protesters, activists and supporters of the protests, as well as by those following the events around the globe. This report investigates the usage and role of UGC and social networking websites in the recent protests and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as well as other cases outside of the region.