Youtube:
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos, and it makes use of Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
a)
Introduction to the work
From: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Egyptian_Tank_Man.jpg
Video by Mostafa Fathi
Video Title : Egyptian Tank Man
Released Date: 25 January, 2011
Background about Egypt Revolution:
Where: Tahrir Square, Cairo is the focal point
Egyptian Tank Man incident: On a side street leading into
Tahrir Square
Who: Mass civilian movement; strikes by labour unions
Demands: Democratic elections, resignation of
President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of rule; end
of police brutality, end of state of emergency
Civilian casualties: At least 800 deaths; others suffered
police brutality or torture; some females were
subjected to "virginity tests."
b) A detailed description
of the work
· shows a protester courageously single-handedly standing down Egyptian riot police and water cannons (at approximately 1:25), in a Tiananmen Square-like moment. The video was shot by a balcony overlooking a large street protesters and bystanders are clearly overheard shouting in Egyptian Arabic in the background.
· Many media and people take this video as the moment in Tiananmen Square Beijing. They compared the difference of the society background, the reason for the revolution...The spread of this video provokes much more attention to the Arab Spring/ Egyptian Revolution outside the Arab world.
· We use Facebook to schedule the protest, use Twitter to coordinate and Youtube to tell the truth (Abbassi, Jawad, CEO Arab Advisors Group. “An Overview of the Arab Telecom and Broadband Markets and Broadcast Media Industry.” Georgetown University
for Contemporary Arab Studies Symposium. “Information Evolution in the
Arab World.” 22 March, 2010. Accessed 10 November, 2011.)
“The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.” ― Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action
“Ideas spread more rapidly in densely connected social networks. So tools that increase the density of social connection are instrumental to the changes that spread. […] And, more importantly, increased density of information flow (the number of times that people hear things) and of the emotional density (as individuals experience others’ perceptions about events, or ‘social contextualization’) leads to an increased likelihood of radicalization: when people decide to join the revolution instead of watching it." Stowe Boyd
“The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.” ― Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action
“Ideas spread more rapidly in densely connected social networks. So tools that increase the density of social connection are instrumental to the changes that spread. […] And, more importantly, increased density of information flow (the number of times that people hear things) and of the emotional density (as individuals experience others’ perceptions about events, or ‘social contextualization’) leads to an increased likelihood of radicalization: when people decide to join the revolution instead of watching it." Stowe Boyd
c) An
evaluation of the work in terms of your specific research question
The Egyptian tank man is just an example of how Youtube as a platform, to facilitate the progress of the Egyptian revolution. For the other pro-democracy movement, there are many different vids on Youtube showing how the citizens there are suffering under the dictatorship and the repression in their life.
Reference :
Hopkins, Jim (October 11, 2006). "Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder". USA Today. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
"Egypt activists plan biggest protest yet on Friday". Al Arabiya. 27 January 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
The Egyptian tank man is just an example of how Youtube as a platform, to facilitate the progress of the Egyptian revolution. For the other pro-democracy movement, there are many different vids on Youtube showing how the citizens there are suffering under the dictatorship and the repression in their life.
Reference :
Hopkins, Jim (October 11, 2006). "Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder". USA Today. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
"Egypt activists plan biggest protest yet on Friday". Al Arabiya. 27 January 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
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