Information about the Syrian case study
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The power of words
"The Internet can facilitate the ability of citizens to gather information about campaign issues, to mobilise community networks, to create diverse coalitions around the policy problems and to lobby elected representatives. It has also the potential to foster dialogue and consultation between citizens and government, between citizens and political parties and between groups of citizens, by which government and social representatives seek to understand people’s needs and in which citizens seek to contribute actively with their knowledge." Source: http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-edemocracy/article_915.jsp. January 2003.
The Role of ICT in the Arab Spring
The video below is the BBC's 'How Facebook Changed the World'. Over 60 minutes it describes how the internet assisted the sharing of images and other information during the revolutions that affected many North African and Middle Eastern countries from December 2010 onwards. The 'Arab Spring' is the term used to name these revolutions collectively.
The Role of ICT in the Arab Spring
The video below is the BBC's 'How Facebook Changed the World'. Over 60 minutes it describes how the internet assisted the sharing of images and other information during the revolutions that affected many North African and Middle Eastern countries from December 2010 onwards. The 'Arab Spring' is the term used to name these revolutions collectively.
Bana al-Abed sends messages through Twitter documenting the siege of the city. Most of these tweets have documented issues such as airstrikes, destruction, hunger, displacement, the prospect of her and her family's death, her longing for a peaceful childhood, the al-Bab district of eastern Aleppo, and her general calls for peace
I... Hate... War. And the world has forgotten us.. Aleppo pic.twitter.com/yeTjREZWmj
— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) September 24, 2016
How children portray their experiences of the conflict
