First Advisor
Passerini, Eve
Second Advisor
Bowie, Tom
Third Advisor
Wheaton, Aimee
College
Regis College
Degree Name
BA
School
Regis College Senior Honors Program
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Number of Pages
96 pages
Abstract
Our world is increasingly becoming connected through the use of technology, the Internet, and social media networks. Through social media we are able to stay connected in real time, becoming witnesses to each other's lives. This thesis explores how social media amplifies the way we communicate and form identities with one another. Specifically this thesis examines how activists used social media to communicate, mobilize, and form a sense of Egyptian pride throughout the Egyptian Revolution. Throughout the revolution, social media impacted how activists were networking with one another enabling for the demands of the people to be heard- ultimately for the resignation of Egyptian President Mubarak. Eighteen days after the revolution started on January 25,2011 , Mubarak resigned as social media networks contributed to the communication and virtual responses of over three thousand likes on the Facebook page "We are all Khaled Saieed." Yet, more importantly it was the physical presence of over one million people acting collectively to end their oppression under Mubarak's regime on February 11, 2011. So in a time of rising technology, I ask if social media was the essential component for social movements or if the empowering component lies within our physical interactions.
Date of Award
Spring 2013
Location (Creation)
Colorado (state); Denver (county); Denver (inhabited place)
Copyright
© Jessica Baca
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Recommended Citation
Baca, Jessica, "From 328,513 Likes to 1 Million Protestors: How Social Media Amplified Collective Action During the Egyptian Revolution Through Increased Communication and Identity Formation" (2013). Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection). 581.
https://epublications.regis.edu/theses/581